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How to Do Mechanical Tricks

by A. Anderson

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  1. 1Epigraph — The Pile of Draughtsmen
  2. 2A Clever Blow
  3. 3The Obedient Coin
  4. 4To Cut a String With Your Hands
  5. 5The Rebound
  6. 6A Fiery Catapult
  7. 7To Make an Exact Balance
  8. 8The Recomposition of Light
  9. 9The Mysterious Apple
  10. 10Economical Letter-Scales
  11. 11Tracing a Spiral
  12. 12The Inclined Plane
  13. 13To Cut a Bottle With a String
  14. 14Equilibrium of a Knife in Mid-Air
  15. 15A Trick With Four Matches
  16. 16The Distance of an Inaccessible Point
  17. 17Practical Tracing of a Meridian Line
  18. 18To Measure the Height of a Mountain
  19. 19To Take Up Four Knives With One
  20. 20The Tack in the Ceiling
  21. 21The Jumping Pea
  22. 22To Acquire a True Eye
  23. 23The Air-Tight Stopper
  24. 24The Fusee Rocket
  25. 25A Novel Table Mat
  26. 26Geometrical Paper Band
  27. 27Photographic Camera
  28. 28The Phantom Needle
  29. 29Amphitrite
  30. 30Optical Illusions
  31. 31The Insensible Coin
  32. 32The Asses’ Bridge
  33. 33Another Way to Prove the Preceding Theorem
  34. 34Indented Angles
  35. 35A Cheap Shooting Gallery
  36. 36The Coin in Equilibrium
  37. 37The Submerged Coin
  38. 38The Smoke Rings
  39. 39The Walking Cork
  40. 40The Obstinate Cork
  41. 41Petroleum Pulverizer
  42. 42Electric Attraction and Repulsion
  43. 43The Bust of the Sage
  44. 44The Witchery of the Hand
  45. 45The Perspectograph
  46. 46Camphor in Water
  47. 47A Simple Multiplier
  48. 48The Drawing Room Mirror
  49. 49Elementary Gas-Burner
  50. 50Rapid Vegetation

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