Johnson, V.E.: Chemical Magic ©1920 V.E. Johnson, M.A., C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd, London Softcover, perfect-bound, 118 pages |
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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