Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments
by Unknown
About this book
This collection of projects and experiments was submitted by Rufus Tuttle, following an Act of Congress promoting education and learning. The projects were designed to be entertaining and educational, at a relatively low cost. - Summary by Lynne T
Chapters (31)
1Water-proof gilding and silvering, The art of burnish gilding, Ornamental bronze gilding
2To enamel picture glasses with gold, To wash iron or steel with gold, To wash brass or copper with silver, To give wood a gold, silver, or copper lustre, To print gold letters on morocco
3To dye silk a brilliant gold colour, To dye silk a brilliant silver colour,
4To silver looking glasses,To write on paper with gold or silver,
5To make good shining black ink, Blue ink, Red ink, Yellow ink, Green ink, Purple ink, To write in various colours with the same pen, ink and paper.
6Sympathetic inks for secret correspondence
7Luminous ink that will shine in the dark, To make a writing appear and disappear at pleasure, To make a writing vanish and another appear in its place, To restore old writing that is nearly defaced,
8To paint a picture that will appear and disappear, Landscape painting on walls of rooms, To paint in figures for carpets or borders, To paint in imitation of mahogany and maple, The art of painting on glass,
9Best method of polishing steel, To make letters of blue on polished steel, To preserve the brightness of polished steel, To give steel a temper to cut marble,
10To wash iron or steel with copper, To give iron the whiteness of silver, To wash iron with tin,
11To give tin the whiteness and brilliancy of silver, To crystallize tin, To make a gold coloured varnish for tin,
12To make shellac varnish for japanning, To make the best copal varnish, To make a spirit varnish for maps, To make elastic varnish for umbrellas, To varnish maps and pictures,
13To make brunswick blacking, To make a print appear on a gold ground, Best method of tracing or copying a picture, The construction and use of a copying machine, To produce the exact likeness of any object instantly,
14Copper plate engraving, Etching on copper plates, Engraving and scraping in mezzotinto, Etching in aqua-tinta, Copper plate printing,
15Etching letters and flowers on glass, To print figures with a smooth stone, To cut glass with a piece of iron,
16Best cement for joining glass, Best cement for joining china or crockery, To make a strong water proof glue,
17The art of moulding figures in relief, To cast images in plaster,
18To produce embossed letters on marble, To soften stone,
19To change wood, apparently, to stone, To render wood, cloth or paper, fire proof
20To produce fire readily, To make super-combustible matches, To make gun powder, To make the common fulminating powder, To make mercurial fulminating powder,
21To kindle a fire under water, To light a candle by application of ice, To form letters or flowers of real flame, To produce flame of various colours,
22To make sky rockets and fire wheels, To produce detonating balloons, To prepare a phial that will give light in the dark, To make a person's face appear luminous in the dark,
23To freeze water in warm weather, To change the colours of animals, To give leather a beautiful metallic lustre,
24An easy method of extracting the essence of roses, To prepare various kinds of essences, To prepare soda water,
25To produce metallic trees, To tin copper by boiling, A metal that will melt in hot water,
26Illustration of calico printing, To prepare an imitation of gold bronze,
27To procure the exhilarating gas, Construction of the galvanic pile or battery, Construction of the oxy-hydrogen blow-pipe, To make a dry phosphorescent powder, Curious experiment of precipitation,
28To make a beautiful soft glass for jewelry, Composition of various kinds of glass, Composition of various alloys,
29To produce various kinds of gas, Various chemical tests, To produce a picture instantly,
30A cheap imitation of silver bronze, To make crayons of various colours, To make hard sealing wax, The art of manufacturing paper hangings, To make elastic blacking for leather, Sundry experiments,
31Appendix
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