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- Never-yielding Cement
- The Deforming Mirrors
- Aigrettes
- A More Powerful Fulminating Powder
- A Liquid That Shines In The Dark
- Balloon Wheels They Are Made To Turn Horizontally: They Must Be
- A Lamp That Will Burn Twelve Months Without Replenishing
- To Make Artificial Coruscations
- Another Way
- Artificial Illuminations
- The Magnifying Reflector
- The Hour Of The Day Or Night Told By A Suspended Shilling
- Another Invisible Green Ink
- Another
- To Spin Sealing-wax Into Threads By Electricity
- Easy And Curious Methods Of Foretelling Rainy Or Fine Weather
- A Powder Which Catches Fire When Exposed To The Air

Least Viewed

- Stars With Points
- Winter Changed To Spring
- To Take Impressions Of Coins Medals &c
- To Tell A Person Any Number He May Privately Fix On
- The Boundless Prospect
- Vegetable Air-bubbles
- The Electric Aurora Borealis
- To Tell The Number Of Points On Three Cards Placed Under Three
- To Tell The Amount Of The Numbers Of Any Two Cards Drawn From A
- To Tell The Amount Of The Numbers Of Any Three Cards That A Person
- The Divining Card
- The Card In The Opera Glass
- To Make Pictures Of Birds With Their Natural Feathers
- To Diversify The Colours Of Flowers
- Caduceous Rockets They Are Such As In Rising Form Two Spiral
- Swans And Ducks In Water
- The Mysterious Writing

Feathers Heavier Than Lead

At one end of a fine balance, hang a piece of lead, and at the other
as many feathers as will poise it; then place the balance in the
receiver. As the air is exhausted, the feathers will appear to
overweigh the lead, and when all the air is drawn off, the feathers
will preponderate, and the lead ascend.





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