Lanners, Edi: Secrets of 123 Classic Science Tricks and Experiments ©1981 TAB Books, Inc., PA Softcover, perfect-bound,, 6x9", 190 pages ISBN: 0-8306-2821-5

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Comments: Originally printed as "Secrets of 123 Old Time Science Tricks & Experiments"

Contents (from book):

7 Introduction
13 Columbus's Up-Dated Egg
13 The Hovering Ladle
14 The Acrobatic Pencil
15 The Plate Carousel
16 Floating Kitchen Utensils
17 Playing with Matches
20 A Tiny Drill
20 The Dancing Wineglass
22 The Balancing Goblet
22 The Floating Carafe
24 A Homemade Precision Balance
25 The Nerve-Racking Game
26 Pigs in Clover
27 The Animate Cardboard Bon
28 Where Is the Center of Gravity?
29 Seeing Is Believing
30 Peeling an Orange
32 The Bewitched Fidihus
33 The Compliant Coins
34 From Elbow to Hand
36 Inertia and the Checkerboard
37 And the Coin Is Still T h ere!
38 Cup-and-Ball with Dice
38 Experiments with Centrifugal Effects
41 The Devil-on-Two-Sticks
42 A Miniature Boomerang
44 A Russian Soap-Bubble Carousel
45 Chain into Top
46 The Ascent of the Napkin Ring
47 The Carding Tumbler
48 The Strength of Straw
50 The Knife as Nutcracker
51 A Blow with a Stick
52 The Transmission of an Impact
53 Water into Wine
54 Which Is Heavier?
55 The Japanese Paper Frog
57 The Runaway Coin
59 The Leaping Egg
59 A Remarkable Top
61 Artificial Birds
62 The Spinning Coin
63 The Floating Bread Pellet
64 The Freely Suspended Coin
66 A New Version of the Magdeburg Hemispheres
68 Blowing a Candle out with a Bottle
71 A Passenger-Ferrying Soap Bubble
72 Forcing an Egg into a Bottle
72 An Inexpensive Trombone
75 The Bottle-Harmonica at Concert Pitch
76 The Melodious Dulcimer
77 Well Grunted!
78 Imitation Thunder
79 Visible Vibrations
81 The Water Candlestick
82 Muslin and a Glowing Coal
83 The Electric Walnut
85 The Electric Broomstick
86 Another Way of Fishing
87 The Electric Dancers
89 The Induction Top
90 Magnetizing a Knife
91 A Leyden Jar and an Electrical Tea Tray
94 Thermoelectric Currents
95 Drawing with Fire
96 Crystals on a Thread
98 Swim, Little Fish!
99 The Camphor Boat
100 Floating Iron
102 Drawing a Circle by Cohesion
103 The Suspended Pencil
104 How to Fill a Sealed Wineglass
106 A Mussel Turbine
107 A Paper Cornet Waterwheel
109 A Letter Balance for the Summer Vacation
110 A Snail-Shell Waterwheel
111 A Hydraulic Motor
113 Experiments with Capillarity
114 A Simple Prism
116 Sundials
118 The Reflection o f Light
119 The Reverse Image
121 Right- or Left-Sighted ?
124 A Trick with Light
126 Simulating Spectral Colors
128 Glass Globe into Microscope
129 A Distorted Drawing
131 The Magic Mirror
134 Mirror Images without Mirrors
134 The Cabinet of Mirrors
137 Hexagonal Circles
138 Penumbral Pictures
139 The Devil in Reverse
140 The Fade-Over Effect
142 How Tall Is the Top Hat?
145 Optical Illusions with the Help of a Ruler
145 The Man in the Bottle
148 The Giant Hare
149 The Cannibal
151 Your Head on a Platter
152 Photographic Compositions
155 Shadow Pictures
165 The Singing Doll
167 Playing-Card into Chain
168 A Trick with String
169 The Vanishing Ball
170 Inseparable Companions
173 Magic Spheres
173 The Mysterious Knot
175 The Vanishing Birdcage
176 The Magic Chain
176 The Coin in the Bottle
179 Where is the Dime?
180 The Bewitched Sphere
182 The Frisky Mouse
183 Tricky Dice
184 The Clutch of Eggs in the Hat
186 Flowers for a Friend
187 The Mysterious Hand
188 The Patient Impaled
189 The Disappearing Coin
190 Magic with the Magic Egg