How to become an inventor

About this eBook

Author

Warford, Aaron A.

Title

How to become an inventor : Containing experiments in photography, hydraulics, galvanism and electricity, magnetism, heat, and the wonders of the microscope

Original Publication

New York: Frank Tousey, 1898.

Credits

Demian Katz, Craig Kirkwood, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University.)

Language

English

LoC Class

Q: Science

Subject

Scientific recreations

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 72892

Release Date

February 7, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber’s Notes:
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.How to Become an Inventor.
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.How to Become an Inventor. — THE SHOP AND BENCH. — SAWS. — THE SPOKE SHAVE. — STOCK AND BITS. — HOW TO MAKE A WHEELBARROW. — THE WAY TO MAKE A BOX. — TO CUT THE DOVETAILS. — THE BOTTOM OF THE BOX.
6. 6.GALVANISM, OR VOLTAIC ELECTRICITY. — ORIGIN OF GALVANISM. — SIMPLE EXPERIMENT TO EXCITE GALVANIC ACTION. — WITH METAL PLATES IN WATER. — TO MAKE A MAGNET BY THE VOLTAIC CURRENT. — EFFECTS OF GALVANISM ON A MAGNET. — CHANGE OF COLOR BY GALVANISM. — THE GALVANIC SHOCK. — THE ELECTROTYPE. — HOW TO MAKE AN ELECTROTYPE APPARATUS. — TO OBTAIN THE COPY OF A COIN OR MEDAL.
7. 7.HEAT. — HEAT, OR CALORIC. — EXPANSION.
8. 8.HYDRAULICS. — THE SYPHON. — THE PUMP. — THE HYDRAULIC DANCER.
9. 9.MAGNETISM. — TO MAKE ARTIFICIAL MAGNETS. — HOW TO MAGNETIZE A POKER. — TO SHOW MAGNETIC REPULSION AND ATTRACTION. — NORTH AND SOUTH POLES OF THE MAGNET. — POLARITY OF THE MAGNET. — THE MAGNETIC FISH. — THE MAGNETIC SWAN. — TO SUSPEND A NEEDLE IN THE AIR BY MAGNETISM. — TO MAKE ARTIFICIAL MAGNETS WITHOUT THE AID EITHER OF NATURAL LOADSTONES OR ARTIFICIAL MAGNETS. — HORSE-SHOE MAGNETS. — EXPERIMENT TO SHOW THAT SOFT IRON POSSESSES MAGNETIC PROPERTIES WHILE IT REMAINS IN THE VICINITY OF A MAGNET. — ELECTRO-MAGNETISM. — POWER OF THE ELECTRO-MAGNET. — THE MARINER’S COMPASS AND EXPERIMENTS WITH A POCKET COMPASS. — VARIATION OF THE NEEDLE. — DIP OF THE NEEDLE. — USEFUL AMUSEMENT WITH THE POCKET COMPASS. — INTERESTING PARTICULARS CONCERNING THE MAGNET.
10. 10.HOW TO BECOME A PHOTOGRAPHER. — HOW TO MAKE THE NEGATIVE ON GLASS, USING COLLODION BROMOIODIZED FOR IRON DEVELOPMENT.
11. 11.MECHANICS. — EXPERIMENT OF THE LAW OF MOTION. — BALANCING. — THE PRANCING HORSE. — TO CONSTRUCT A FIGURE, WHICH BEING PLACED UPON A CURVED SURFACE, AND INCLINED IN ANY POSITION, SHALL, WHEN LEFT TO ITSELF, RETURN TO ITS FORMER POSITION. — TO MAKE A CARRIAGE RUN IN AN INVERTED POSITION WITHOUT FALLING. — TO CAUSE A CYLINDER TO ROLL BY ITS OWN WEIGHT UP-HILL. — THE BALANCED STICK. — THE CHINESE MANDARIN. — TO MAKE A SHILLING TURN ON ITS EDGE ON THE POINT OF A NEEDLE. — THE DANCING PEA. — OBLIQUITY OF MOTION.
12. 12.PNEUMATICS. — WEIGHT OF THE AIR PROVED BY A PAIR OF BELLOWS. — THE PRESSURE OF THE AIR SHOWN BY A WINE-GLASS. — ANOTHER. — ELASTICITY OF THE AIR. — REASON FOR THIS. — THE AIR-PUMP. — TO PROVE THAT AIR HAS WEIGHT. — TO PROVE AIR ELASTIC. — SOVEREIGN AND FEATHER. — AIR IN THE EGG. — THE DESCENDING SMOKE. — THE SOUNDLESS BELL. — THE FLOATING FISH. — THE DIVING BELL. — EXPERIMENTS. — EXPERIMENT. — EXPERIMENT. — EXPERIMENT.
13. 13.HOW TO BECOME AN OPTICIAN. — LIGHT AS AN EFFECT. — REFRACTION. — THE INVISIBLE COIN MADE VISIBLE. — THE MULTIPLYING GLASS. — TRANSPARENT BODIES. — THE PRISM. — COMPOSITION OF LIGHT. — A NATURAL CAMERA OBSCURA. — BULLOCK’S EYE EXPERIMENT. — THE CAMERA OBSCURA. — THE MAGIC LANTERN. — PAINTING THE SLIDES. — TO EXHIBIT THE MAGIC LANTERN. — EFFECTS OF THE MAGIC LANTERN. — TEMPEST AT SEA. — THE PHANTASMAGORIA. — DISSOLVING VIEWS. — HOW TO RAISE A GHOST. — THE THAUMATROPE. — THE BIRD IN THE CAGE. — CONSTRUCTION OF THE PHANTASMASCOPE. — CURIOUS OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. — ANOTHER. — ANOTHER. — THE PICTURE IN THE AIR. — TO SHOW THAT RAYS OF LIGHT DO NOT OBSTRUCT EACH OTHER. — OPTICS OF A SOAP-BUBBLE. — THE KALEIDOSCOPE. — SIMPLE SOLAR MICROSCOPE.
14. 14.THE MICROSCOPE. — THE COMPOUND MICROSCOPE.
15. 15.Untitled
16. 16.Untitled
17. 17.Untitled
18. 18.Untitled
19. 19.Untitled
20. 20.Transcriber’s Notes:

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