Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments

1. 1 Water-proof gilding and silvering, The art of burnish gilding, Ornamental bronze gildingRead by Lynne T 8m
2. 2 To 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 moroccoRead by prajak 6m
3. 3 To dye silk a brilliant gold colour, To dye silk a brilliant silver colour,Read by prajak 3m
4. 4 To silver looking glasses,To write on paper with gold or silver,Read by Adam Starks 4m
5. 5 To 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.Read by prajak 6m
6. 6 Sympathetic inks for secret correspondenceRead by Availle 2m
7. 7 Luminous 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,Read by BettyB 3m
8. 8 To 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 oRead by BettyB 9m
9. 9 Best 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,Read by prajak 6m
10. 10 To wash iron or steel with copper, To give iron the whiteness of silver, To wash iron with tin,Read by prajak 5m
11. 11 To give tin the whiteness and brilliancy of silver, To crystallize tin, To make a gold coloured varnish for tin,Read by prajak 4m
12. 12 To 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,Read by prajak 6m
13. 13 To 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 obRead by prajak 9m
14. 14 Copper plate engraving, Etching on copper plates, Engraving and scraping in mezzotinto, Etching in aqua-tinta, Copper plate printing,Read by prajak 15m
15. 15 Etching letters and flowers on glass, To print figures with a smooth stone, To cut glass with a piece of iron,Read by BettyB 4m
16. 16 Best cement for joining glass, Best cement for joining china or crockery, To make a strong water proof glue,Read by Agnes Robert Behr 3m
17. 17 The art of moulding figures in relief, To cast images in plaster,Read by Romeo J. 2m
18. 18 To produce embossed letters on marble, To soften stone,Read by Romeo J. 2m
19. 19 To change wood, apparently, to stone, To render wood, cloth or paper, fire proofRead by twomustangs 2m
20. 20 To produce fire readily, To make super-combustible matches, To make gun powder, To make the common fulminating powder, To make mercurial fulminating powder,Read by Agnes Robert Behr 6m
21. 21 To 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,Read by EmilyCripps 4m
22. 22 To 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,Read by EmilyCripps 6m
23. 23 To freeze water in warm weather, To change the colours of animals, To give leather a beautiful metallic lustre,Read by Stacey Malcolm 3m
24. 24 An easy method of extracting the essence of roses, To prepare various kinds of essences, To prepare soda water,Read by jenno 4m
25. 25 To produce metallic trees, To tin copper by boiling, A metal that will melt in hot water,Read by twomustangs 2m
26. 26 Illustration of calico printing, To prepare an imitation of gold bronze,Read by jenno 5m
27. 27 To 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,Read by Larry Wilson 7m
28. 28 To make a beautiful soft glass for jewelry, Composition of various kinds of glass, Composition of various alloys,Read by jenno 5m
29. 29 To produce various kinds of gas, Various chemical tests, To produce a picture instantly,Read by twomustangs 5m
30. 30 A 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,Read by BettyB 12m
31. 31 AppendixRead by Larry Wilson 12m

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