Thomas Boys (Publisher) Endless Amusement ©1820 (circa) Thomas Boys and Thorp and Burch, London Hardcover, 216 pages ©1839 Henry Washbourne & Thomas Tegg, London, 7th Ed. ©1847 Lea and Blanchard, USA

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Contents (from 2nd Edition book):

13 To Produce Fire by the Mixture of Two Cold Liquids
13 The Exploding Bubble
14 The Magic Picture
14 Artificial Lightning
14 Artificial Thunder
15 Another Way
15 Money Augmented by an Optical Illusion
16 Three Objects, Discernible Only With Both Eyes
16 To Construct the Camera Obscura
17 The Magnifying Reflector
17 To Tell By a Watch Dial The Hour When a Person Intends to Rise
18 A Person Having An Even Number Of Shillings In One Hand And An Odd Number In The Other, To Tell In Which Hand The Odd Or Even Number Is
19 Secret Correspondence
19 Another Way
20 Secret Correspondence by Music
20 The Magic Vessel
21 Artificial Earthquake and Volcano
21 Artificial Illuminations
22 The Cameleon Spirit
22 Invisible Ink
23 Another
23 Another
23 Invisible Gold Ink
23 Invisible Silver Ink
24 Invisible Yellow Ink
24 Invisible Red Ink
24 Invisible Green Ink
24 Another Invisible Green Ink
24 Invisible Violet Ink
25 A Secret Correspondence By Means of Invisible Ink
25 The Mysterious Writing
26 The Restored Flowers
26 Winter Changed to Spring
26 The Silver Tree
27 Lead Tree
27 To Produce Beautiful Fire Works in Miniature
28 Artificial Rain and Hail
28 Illuminated Writing
29 A Lamp That Will Burn Twelve Months Without Replenishing
29 Curious Transcolourations
29 Another
30 Another
30 Curious Account of the Electric Effects of a Russian Climate
31 Astonishing Power of Steam
32 Account of the Wonderful Effects of Two Immense Burning Glasses: and a chart of time it took to melt gold, silver, jasper, etc.
34 Fulminating Powder
34 A More Powerful Fulminating Powder
34 To Make the Phosphorus Match Bottles
35 To Make a Ring Suspend by a Thread After the Thread Has Been Burned
35 To Form Figures in Relief on an Egg
35 To Give a Ghastly Appearance to Persons In a Room
35 To Change Blue to White
36 Magical Transmutations
36 To Make Pomatum With Water and Wax
36 Iron Transformed Into Copper
37 Iron Transformed Into Silver
37 Chemical Illuminations
37 The Philosophical Candle
38 To Make The Appearance of a Flash of Lightning When Any One Enters a Room With a Lighted Candle
38 To Melt Iron in a Moment and Make It Run Into Drops
38 Never-Yielding Cement
38 To Remove Stains and Blemishes from Prints
39 To So Fill A Glass With Water That It Cannot Be Removed Without Spilling The Whole
39 Two Figures, One Of Which Blows Out And The Other Re-Lights A Candle
40 A Vessel That Will Let Water Out At the Bottom As Soon As the Mouth Is UnCorked
40 A Powder Which Catches Fire When Exposed To The Air
40 Fulminating Gold
41 To Melt A Piece Of Money In A Walnut-Shell, Without Injuring The Shell
41 A Liquor That Shines In the Dark
42 Luminous Liquor
42 The Changeable Rose
42 Golden Ink
42 Another Way
43 White Ink for Writing on Black Paper
43 To Construct Paper Balloons
44 Water-Gliding Upon Silver
44 A Water, Which Gives Silver a Gold Colour
44 To Make an Old Gold Chain Appear Like New
44 To Give Silver the Colour of Gold
44 A Water To Give Any Metal a Gold Colour
45 Another Way
45 To Give Silver-Plate a Lustre
45 The Fiery Fountain
45 To Take Impressions of Coins, Medals, &c.
46 To Tell a Person Any Number He May Privately Fix On
46 To Tell Any Number A Person Has Fixed On, Without Asking Him Any Questions
48 The Lamp Chronometer
49 The Phial of the Four Elements
49 The Magic Bottle: water and wine exchange
49 The Globular Fountain
50 The Hydraulic Dancer
50 A Person Having Put A Ring On One Of His Fingers, To Name The Person, The Hand, The Finger, And The Joint On Which It Is Placed
51 The Water Sun
52 The Magical Cascade
53 The Illuminated Fountain, That Plays When The Candles Are Lighted, And Stops When They Are Extinguished
53 A Fountain Which Acts By the Heat of the Sun
54 Inflammable Phosphorus
55 The Magical Mirrors
55 To Cause a Brilliant Explosion Under Water
55 Fulminating Mercury
56 The Iron Tree
56 To Make Any Number Divisible by Nine by Adding a Figure To It
57 Arithmetical Magical Squares
58 To Find the Difference Between Two Numbers, The Greatest of Which is Unknown
59 The Boundless Prospect
59 To Set Fire to a Combustible Body By Reflection
60 To Find the Number of Changes That May be Rung on Twelve Bells
61 To Find How Many Square Yards It Would Require To Write All The Changes Of The Twenty-Four Letters Of The Alphabet, Written So Small That Each Letter Should Not Occupy More Than The Hundredth Part Of A Square Inch
61 The Enchanted Bottle
62 The Solar Magic Lantern
62 The Artificial Rainbow
63 The Aeolipiles
63 The Talking Busts
63 The Inanimate Oracle
64 The Solar Concerto
65 Curious Experiments With the Magic Lantern
65 Of Painting the Glasses
66 To Represent a Storm at Sea
66 To Produce the Appearance of a Spectre on a Pedestal in the Middle of a Table
68 The Artificial Landscape
68 To Draw, Easily And Correctly, A Landscape, Or Any Other Object, Without Being Obliged To Observe The Rules Of Perspective, And Without The Aid Of The Camera Obscura
70 Illuminated Prospects

71 Experiments in Magnetism
71 The Magnetic Wand
71 The Mysterious Watch
72 The Magnetic Dial
73 The Magnetic Cards
73 The Magnetic Orrery
75 The Magic Verse

77 Interesting Experiment With the Air Pump
77 Bottles Broken by Air
77 Glass Broken by Air
77 The Hand Fixed by Air
78 Water Boiled by Air
78 Aerial Bubbles
78 The Floating Stone
78 Withered Fruit Restored
79 Vegetable Air Bubbles
79 The Mercurial Wand
79 The Magic Bell
80 Feathers Heavier Than Lead
80 The Self Moving Wheel
80 The Artifical Halo
80 Mercurial Shower
81 Magic Fountain
81 The Exploded Bladder
81 The Cemented Bladder
82 Cork Heavier Than Lead
82 The Animated Bacchus
82 The Artificial Balloon
83 Curious Experiment With a Viper
83 Experiments With Sparrows

84 Amusing Experiments In Electricity
84 The Animated Feather
85 The Candle Lighted by Electricity
85 Candle Bombs
85 The Artificial Spider
86 The Miraculous Portrait
86 The Cup of Tantalus
87 Magical Explosion
87 Artificial Earthquake
87 The Magic Dance
88 The Electrical Fountain
88 The Electric Kite
89 The Magic Chase
90 The Unconscious Incendiary
90 The Inconceivable Shock
91 The Miraculous Luminaries
92 The Fiery Shower
92 The Illuminated Vacuum
93 The Illuminated Cylinder
94 The Electric Aurora Borealis
94 The Electrical Orrery
95 The Electrified Cotton
95 The Electric Sparks
96 Dancing Balls
96 The Leyden Phial
97 The Self-Moving Wheel
98 Rosin Ignited By Electricity
99 Spirits Ignited By Electricity
99 The Electric Balloon
99 The Illuminated Water
100 The Electrified Ball
100 Illuminated Phosphorus
101 THe Luminous Writig
101 The Electric Explosion
102 Electrified Air
103 Another Electric Orrery
103 The Electric Ball
104 To Spin Sealing-wax Into Threads By Electricity
104 The Electrified Camphor

105 Amusements With Cards
105 To Tell The Number Of Points On Three Cards, Placed Under Three Different Parcels Of Cards
106 The Ten Duplicates
106 To Tell How Many Cards A Person Takes Out Of A Pack, And To Specify Each Card
107 A Hundred Different Names Being Written On The Cards, To Tell The Particular Name Any Person Thought Of
108 Several Different Cards Being Fixed On By Different Persons, To Name That On Which Each Person Fixed
109 To Name The Rank Of A Card That A Person Has Drawn From A Piquet Pack
109 To Tell The Amount Of The Numbers Of Any Two Cards Drawn from A Common Pack
110 To Tell The Amount Of The Numbers Of Any Three Cara That A Person Shall Draw from The Pack
111 How to Make the Pass
112 The Long Card
112 The Divining Card
113 The Four Confederate Cards
114 The Numerical Card
114 The Card Found By the Point of a Sword
114 The Card Hit Upon By Guess
115 The Card Changed By Word of Command
115 The Three Magical Parties
116 The Magic Vase
117 The Divining Perspective Glass
118 The Card In the Ring
119 The Card In the Mirror
120 The Card In the Opera Glass
120 To Separate The Two Colours of a Pack of Cards By One Cut
120 The Metamorphosed Cards
122 To Discover the Card Which is Drawn, by the Throw of a Die
122 To Tell the Number of Cards By Their Weight
123 The Four Inseparable Kings
123 To Change the Cards Which Several Persons Have Drawn From the Pack
123 The Card Discovered Under the Handkerchief
124 The convertible Aces
124 To Tell The Card That a Person Has Touched With His Finger
125 The Card in the Pocket Book
125 The Card in the Egg
126 The Card Discovered By the Touch or Smell
126 The Inverted Cards
127 The Transmutable Cards
127 The Convertible Cards

128 The Enchanted Palace
129 Opaque Bodies Seemingly Transparent
131 The Deforming Mirrors
131 The Magic Tube
132 The Magician's Mirror
133 The Perspective Mirror
133 Gunpowder Exploded by Reflection
134 The Igniting Mirrors
134 The Armed Apparition
134 The Phantom
135 The Distorting Mirror
135 Water Colder Than Ice
135 Exploding Salt
136 Dioptrical Paradox
137 To Show The Spots In the Sun's Disk, By Its Image In the Camera Obscura
137 The Diagonal Opera Glass
138 To Observe the Eclipse of the Sun, Without Injury to the Eye
138 The Burnt Writing Restored
139 The Opaque Box Made Transparent
140 The Transposable Pieces
140 The Penetrative Guinea
141 To Make Pictures of Birds With Their Natural Feathers
142 The Art of Bronzing
143 Method of Taking the Impression of Butterflies on Paper
143 To Make Moulds of Horn
143 To Soften Horn
144 To Cast Figures In Imitation of Ivory
144 To Extract the Silver Out of a Ring, That is Thick Gilded, So That the Gold May Remain Entire
144 To Soften Iron or Steel
144 To Take a Plaster-Of-Paris Cast From a Person's Face
145 Curious Experiment With a Glass of Water
145 To Make Artificial Coruscations
145 Another Method
146 To Produce Fire From Cane
146 To Make an Eolian Harp
146 To Shew the Pressure of the Atmosphere
147 Subaqueous Exhalation
147 Remarkable Properties in Certain Plants
148 Flowers Curiously Affected By the Sun and the Weather
148 Easy Method of Obtaining Flowers of Different Colours From the Same Stem
148 A Luminous Bottle, Which Will Shew The Hour On a Watch In the Dark
149 To Make Luminous Writing In the Dark
149 The Sublimated Tree
149 Easy and Curious Methods of Foretelling Rainy or Fine Weather
149 Contrivance For A Watch Lamp, Perfectly Safe, Which Will Shew The Hour Of the Nighty Without Any Trouble To A Person Lying In Bed
150 Curious Experiment With a Tulip
150 The Travelling of Sound Experimentally Proved
151 To Produce Metallic Lead From the Powder
151 To Diversify The Colours of Flowers
151 How Far Sound Travels in a Minute
152 Easy Method of Making a Rain Gauge
152 To Make Beautiful Transparent Coloured Water
153 Curious Experiment on Rays of Light
153 The Power of Water
153 The Pressure of Water
154 Refraction of Light
154 Wonderful Nature of Lightning
154 To Shew That the White of Eggs Contains an Alkali
155 Two Inodorous Bodies Become Very Pungent and Odorous By Mixture
155 Interesting Experiment for the Microscope
155 The Travelling of Light
156 Calculation of the Mass of Water Contained in the Sea
156 Different Degrees of Heat Imbibed from the Sun's Rays by Cloths of Different Colours
157 Alternate Illusion
157 Alarum
158 Musical Cascade
159 Writing on Glass By the Rays of the Sun
159 To Produce the Appearance of a Flower From Its Ashes
160 Imitative Fireworks
162 To Represent Cascades of Fire
163 The Oracular Mirror
163 The Hour of The Day or Night Told By a Suspended Shilling
164 Of Lightning And the Best Method of Guarding Against its Mischievous Effects
168 The Leach A Prognosticator of the Weather
168 The Awn of Barley, an Hydrometer
169 The Power of Water When Reduced to Vapour by Heat
170 Artificial Memory
171 To Procure Hydrogen Gas
171 To Fill a Bladder With Hydrogen Gas
171 Exploding Gas Bubbles
172 Another Method
172 Singular Impression on the Visual Nerves By a Luminous Object
172 Curious Effects of Oil Upon Water and Water Upon Oil
173 Weather Table
174 Another Curious Experiment With Oil and Water
174 Remarkable Effect on the Visual Nerves by Looking Through Differently Coloured Glasses

175 A Complete System of Pyrotechny or the Art of Making Fire-Works
175 Of Sulphur, or Brimstone
175 Of Saltpetre
175 To Pulverize Saltpetre
175 To Prepare Charcoal for Fire-Works
177 Of Gunpowder, &c.
177 How to Meal Gunpowder, Brimstone, and Charcoal
178 Spur Fire
179 How to Make Touch-Paper
180 Of Such Ingredients as Show Themselves in Sparks When Rammed Into Choaked Cases
180 Of the Method of Mixing Compositions
181 To Make Crackers
181 To Make Squibs and Serpents
183 Sky-Rockets
183 - Method of Rolling Rocket Cases
184 - Of Mixing the Composition
184 - To Drive or Ram Rockets
185 - Decoration for Sky-Rockets
185 - Length of Rocket Sticks
185 - Charge for Sky Rockets: with tables
187 - To Fix One Rocket on the Top of Another
188 - Caduceus Rockets
188 - Honorary Rockets
189 - To Make a Rocker Form an Arch in Rising
189 - To Make Several Rockers Rise Together
190 - To Fix Several Rockets to the Same Stick
192 - To Fire Rockets Without Sticks
192 - Scrolls for Rockets
193 - Stands for Rockets
193 - Table Rockets
194 Wheels: charts of charges for wheel cases
194 - Single Vertical Wheels
195 - Horizontal Wheels
196 - Spiral Wheels
196 - Plural Wheels
197 - Illuminated Spiral Wheels
197 - Double Spiral Wheels
197 - Balloon Wheels
198 Balloon Cases
198 Mortars
199 Aigrettes
201 Fire Pumps or Roman Candles
201 An Artificial Earthquake
202 Chinese Fountains
202 The Dodecahedron
203 Stars With Points
204 Fixed Sun With a Transparent Face

205 Detonting Works
205 Waterloo Crackers
205 Detonating Girdle
206 Detonating Balls
206 The Detonating Tape
206 Detonating Cards

207 Aquatic Fireworks
207 Water Rockets
208 Pipes of Communication for Water
208 Horizontal Water-Wheels
209 Water-Mines
210 Fire-Globes for Water
211 Odoriferous Water-Balloons
211 A Sea-Fight With Small Ships and a Fire Ship
213 To Fire Sky-Rockets Under Water
214 Neptune In His Chariot
215 Swans and Ducks In Water
216 Water Fire-Fountains