V.E. Johnson: Chemical Magic
Johnson, V.E.: Chemical Magic
©1920 V.E. Johnson, M.A., C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd, London
Softcover, perfect-bound, 118 pages
V.E. Johnson: Chemical Magic
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Comments: "With full explanations, including Patter, for giving an Entertainment". Note this is a different book from his earlier "Chemistry and Chemical Magic" from 1912.

Contents (Chapters from ToC, updated Jan 2023):

1 Chapter 1 Introductory Precautions and General Hints

6 Chapter II Wine and Water and other Transmutations of Liquid Colours

17 Chapter III Disappearing and Reappearing Writing, etc., or Sympathetic Inks

27 Chapter IV Spontaneous Combustion
— Quick Bleaching Agents
— Magical Uses of the Same and also of Certain Gases, Smokes and Vapours

37 Chapter V  Chemical Pyrotechnics
— Fire Production
— Fire and Water
— Fire Eating

55 Chapter VI Heat and Cold

61 Chapter VII Some Miscellaneous Experiments

86 Chapter VIII How to Give an Entertainment in Chemical Magic

110 Chapter IX Preparing and Arranging the Necessary Apparatus
- Gas Generation
- Laboratory Directions
- Hints and Cautions


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