Title Page: "Magical Experiments or Science in Play" by Arthur Good. Philadelphia: David McKay, (1894).
In the dedication to his son Johnnie, the author writes:
“Among the experiments contained in this book, many are simple pastimes meant for the recreation of young and old, assembled round the family table.
“Others, on the contrary, being of a really scientific character, are designed to introduce the reader to the study of Physics, that marvelous science to which we owe the discovery of the steam-engine, the telephone, the phonograph, and many other wonders – a science which, there can be little doubt, holds in reserve many other miracles for man.
“The whole of these experiments, whether simple or complex, may be performed without any special apparatus whatever, consequently without the least expense. Our improvised laboratory is composed, as you will perceive, of such articles as kitchen utensils, corks, matches, glasses, knives, forks, and plates – in fact, such things as every house, the humblest in the land, possesses.
“In dedicating this book to you, I trust it may prove a pleasant souvenir, in the days to come, of the happy moments we passed together in working these simple wonders, and in constructing the homely apparatus used in our Magical Experiments.” – Arthur Good (Tom Tit), Paris, 1st of January, 1890
The book contains 150 Magical Experiments.
Title Page: "Magical Experiments or Science in Play" by Arthur Good. Philadelphia: David McKay, (1894).
In the dedication to his son Johnnie, the author writes:
“Among the experiments contained in this book, many are simple pastimes meant for the recreation of young and old, assembled round the family table.
“Others, on the contrary, being of a really scientific character, are designed to introduce the reader to the study of Physics, that marvelous science to which we owe the discovery of the steam-engine, the telephone, the phonograph, and many other wonders – a science which, there can be little doubt, holds in reserve many other miracles for man.
“The whole of these experiments, whether simple or complex, may be performed without any special apparatus whatever, consequently without the least expense. Our improvised laboratory is composed, as you will perceive, of such articles as kitchen utensils, corks, matches, glasses, knives, forks, and plates – in fact, such things as every house, the humblest in the land, possesses.
“In dedicating this book to you, I trust it may prove a pleasant souvenir, in the days to come, of the happy moments we passed together in working these simple wonders, and in constructing the homely apparatus used in our Magical Experiments.” – Arthur Good (Tom Tit), Paris, 1st of January, 1890
The book contains 150 Magical Experiments.