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- Never-yielding Cement
- The Deforming Mirrors
- Aigrettes
- A More Powerful Fulminating Powder
- A Liquid That Shines In The Dark
- A Lamp That Will Burn Twelve Months Without Replenishing
- Balloon Wheels They Are Made To Turn Horizontally: They Must Be
- To Make Artificial Coruscations
- Artificial Illuminations
- Another Way
- The Magnifying Reflector
- Another
- The Hour Of The Day Or Night Told By A Suspended Shilling
- Another Invisible Green Ink
- 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
- To Take Impressions Of Coins Medals &c
- To Tell A Person Any Number He May Privately Fix On
- Vegetable Air-bubbles
- The Electric Aurora Borealis
- 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
- The Mysterious Writing
- Winter Changed To Spring
- The Boundless Prospect
- The Miraculous Portrait
- The Revolutions Of The Heavenly Bodies Forming What Is Called The Electrical Orrery Let A Single Wire With The Extremities Point
- The Electric Explosion
- To Tell The Number Of Points On Three Cards Placed Under Three

The Cup Of Tantalus

You place a cup of any sort of metal on a stool of baked wood or a
cake of wax. Fill it to the brim with any liquor; let it communicate
with the branch by a small chain; and when it is moderately
electrified, desire a person to taste the liquor, without touching the
cup with his hands, and he will instantly receive a shock on his lips.
The motion of the wheel being stopped, you taste the liquor yourself,
and desire the rest of the company to do so; you then give your
operator (who is concealed in an adjoining room) the signal, and he
again charges the cup; you desire the same person to taste the liquor
a second time, and he will receive a second shock.





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