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A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments

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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

Genre(s): Crafts & Hobbies, Education, Science

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Water-proof gilding and silvering, The art of burnish gilding, Ornamental bronze gilding	Lynne T	00:08:20
Play 02	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 morocco	prajak	00:06:09
Play 03	To dye silk a brilliant gold colour, To dye silk a brilliant silver colour,	prajak	00:03:18
Play 04	To silver looking glasses,To write on paper with gold or silver,	Adam Starks	00:04:03
Play 05	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.	prajak	00:06:27
Play 06	Sympathetic inks for secret correspondence	Availle	00:02:27
Play 07	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,	BettyB	00:03:00
Play 08	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 on glass,	BettyB	00:09:54
Play 09	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,	prajak	00:06:05
Play 10	To wash iron or steel with copper, To give iron the whiteness of silver, To wash iron with tin,	prajak	00:05:15
Play 11	To give tin the whiteness and brilliancy of silver, To crystallize tin, To make a gold coloured varnish for tin,	prajak	00:04:30
Play 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,	prajak	00:06:46
Play 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 object instantly,	prajak	00:09:57
Play 14	Copper plate engraving, Etching on copper plates, Engraving and scraping in mezzotinto, Etching in aqua-tinta, Copper plate printing,	prajak	00:15:03
Play 15	Etching letters and flowers on glass, To print figures with a smooth stone, To cut glass with a piece of iron,	BettyB	00:04:38
Play 16	Best cement for joining glass, Best cement for joining china or crockery, To make a strong water proof glue,	Agnes Robert Behr	00:03:40
Play 17	The art of moulding figures in relief, To cast images in plaster,	Romeo J.	00:02:48
Play 18	To produce embossed letters on marble, To soften stone,	Romeo J.	00:02:14
Play 19	To change wood, apparently, to stone, To render wood, cloth or paper, fire proof	twomustangs	00:02:38
Play 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,	Agnes Robert Behr	00:06:53
Play 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,	EmilyCripps	00:04:29
Play 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,	EmilyCripps	00:06:20
Play 23	To freeze water in warm weather, To change the colours of animals, To give leather a beautiful metallic lustre,	Stacey Malcolm	00:03:52
Play 24	An easy method of extracting the essence of roses, To prepare various kinds of essences, To prepare soda water,	jenno	00:04:29
Play 25	To produce metallic trees, To tin copper by boiling, A metal that will melt in hot water,	twomustangs	00:02:18
Play 26	Illustration of calico printing, To prepare an imitation of gold bronze,	jenno	00:05:00
Play 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,	Larry Wilson	00:07:49
Play 28	To make a beautiful soft glass for jewelry, Composition of various kinds of glass, Composition of various alloys,	jenno	00:05:19
Play 29	To produce various kinds of gas, Various chemical tests, To produce a picture instantly,	twomustangs	00:05:27
Play 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,	BettyB	00:12:36
Play 31	Appendix	Larry Wilson	00:12:06

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