A collection of simple and effective experiments illustrating chemical, physical, and optical wonders.
Published by the Offices of the Chemist and Druggist. 42 Cannon Street, London.
- ANCIENT AND MODERN CHEMISTRY
- 'The Four Elements'
- Collecting Gases
- EXPERIMENTS WITH THE GASES
- Oxygen
- Nitrogen
- Hydrogen
- Experiments With Hydrogen
- Composition Of Water
- Making Gas From A Bottle
- A Model Gas Manufactory
- Inextinguishable Flame
- Gas Balloons
- Musical Flame
- Musical Tubes
- Carbonic Acid Gas
- Carbonic Acid Gas From The Lungs
- Combustion And Respiration
- Decantation Of Gases
- Weighing Carbonic Acid Gas
- Chlorine Gas
- Chlorine Water
- Laughing Gas
- EXPERIMENTS WITH PHOSPHORUS
- Phosphorescent Rings
- The Will-O'-The-Wisp
- The Skeleton In The Cupboard
- Luminous Bottle Or Watch Light
- The Well Of Fire
- To Cause A Brilliant Explosion Under Water
- Miniature Fireworks
- EXPERIMENTS WITH METALS
- Lead And Copper
- To Engrave On Steel
- To Melt Silver In A Walnut-Shell
- Soluble Spoons
- To Get An Exact Copy Of Any Coin Or Medal; And To Make A Seal Or Any Device In Copper
- To Coat Steel With Copper
- To Coat Copper With Silver, Iron With Copper, And Tin With Iron, From One Solution
- To Melt Iron In A Moment
- Melting Lead On A Card
- Silver Fire
- Chemical Fireworks
- The Magnesium Light
- Vapour Of Nails
- Pyrophorus
- Silver Tree
- Tin Tree
- Chemical Vegetation
- Lead Tree
- DEVELOPMENTS OF COLOURS
- Invisible Correspondence
- Magic Dye
- To Write With A Brush
- The Blushing Picture
- Chameleon Pictures
- Chameleon Mineral
- To Restore Colour By Water
- Red To Blue
- Blue To Red
- Blue Destroyer And Blue Producer
- Chemical Colour Transmutations
- The Triple Colours
- Improving On Nature
- The Conjurer's Wine-Bottle
- To Produce A Yellow From Two Colourless Fluids
- To Produce A Red In A Similar Way
- Silver Precipitates
- Transformation Liquid
- CRYSTALLISATION EFFECTS
- The Beauty Of Crystallisation
- The Hoar-Frost Shrub
- To Make Crystal Room-Ornament
- How Nature Separates Out Things Which Are Different
- Growth Without Life
- To Make A Solution Crystallise At The Word Of Command
- Chemical Landscapes
- Frosted Glass
- Frost In Summer
- PARLOUR CHEMICAL MAGIC
- A Company Of Ghosts
- The Magic Bottle
- Another Wonderful Bottle
- Blood-Writing
- Inexhaustible Bottle
- Blood-Red Writing On The Arm
- Fire-Eater
- Water And Ink Change Places
- Another Ink And Water Trick
- Sheets Of Flame
- The Humorous Egg
- The Mysterious Egg
- Pushing Its Way
- Two Liquids Form A Solid
- The Rising Flood
- The Marvellous Wine-Glass
- A Liquid Produced By Two Solids
- Contraction On Mixing Liquids
- A Paper Boiler
- Vortex Smoke-Rings
- The Penetrating Smoke
- To Out A Flame In Half
- To Produce Fire From Two Liquids
- The Liquid Island
- To Prove That Sugar Consists Largely Of Charcoal
- To Make Water Boil By The Application Of Cold
- Fire At Command
- Calling Forth The Fire From Mount Etna
- Light A Candle By The Word Of Command
- To Burn A Candle Under Water
- Arithmetic And Chemistry
- Pressure From Below
- Artificial Rain And Hail
- Artificial Lightning
- Taking A Coin Out Of Water Without Wetting The Hand
- The Floating Beacon
- To Change White Boses Into Red Ones
- The Floating Needle
- The Incombustible Handkerchief
- Pharaoh's Serpents
- Heat And Cold
- The Mysterious Bottle
- Gravitation Of Liquids
- The Cup Of Tantalus
- Chemical Fernery
- What Holds It Up?
- Soap Bubbles
- Rosin Bubbles
- Double Bubbles
- The Diving Imp
- Curious Fires
- The Sea On Fire
- The Revolving Serpent
- Parlour Fireworks
- The Rainbow Fire-Cloud
- Fire-Balloons
- The Dancing Fire-Ball
- OPTICAL DELUSIONS
- The Magic Mirrors
- Stage Ghosts
- A Black Black
- Decapitation No Murder
- Complementary Colours
- MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS
- To Engrave Names On Glass
- Artificial Coral For Grottoes
- Relief Designs On Egg-Shells
- To Polish Shells
- To Take Prints Of Leaves &c.
- Sun Printing: For Taking True Copies Of Tradings, Leaves, Patterns Of Lace, &c.
- The Chemical Weather-Glass
- To Bleach Flowers
- Window-Pane Barometers
- A Fairy Fountain
- Cobalt Weather-Prophets
- The Bottle Harmonica
- The Dancing Corks
- To Blow A Flame Towards You
- Hero's Fountain
- Mercury Fountain
- A Spiral Bottle
- The Perfumed Star
- To Make Dresses Fireproof
- A Simple Electrophorus
- Leyden Jar
- Artificial Ice
- Artificial Ice (2)
- Nihilist Bombs
- Camphor On Water
- Coloured Fires
- Prince Rupert's Drops
- Fire Designs
- To Bend A Glass Tube
1st edition 1891, 100 pages; PDF 82 pages.
word count: 22583 which is equivalent to 90 standard pages of text
