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The school boy's holiday companion; or, Treasury of amusement : explaining the method of constructing air and fire balloons, parachutes, plain and folding kites, stilts, wire baskets, paper globes, stars, caps, bangs, bellows, boxes, boats, serpents, pockets, puzzle notes, fly cages, fly guns, stove patterns, cross bows, compasses, kaleidoscopes, models, and instruments for measuring heights, tubes, scales, steelyards, funnels, sieves, looking glasses, egg glasses, hour glasses, and glass inkstands. To which are added many chemical experiments, glasses, metallic trees, chimney ornaments, crystalizing tin, silvering copper, distilling spirits, and freezing water in summer; gunpowder, fulminating powders, detonating balls, Waterloo crackers, Lucifer matches, white, blue, lived, crimson, purple, and instantaneous fires; squibs, wheels, crackers, rockets, blue lights, flower pots, and roman candles. is a list of prices of every article required for the experiments

Title: The school boy's holiday companion; or, Treasury of amusement : explaining the method of constructing air and fire balloons, parachutes, plain and folding kites, stilts, wire baskets, paper globes, stars, caps, bangs, bellows, boxes, boats, serpents, pockets, puzzle notes, fly cages, fly guns, stove patterns, cross bows, compasses, kaleidoscopes, models, and instruments for measuring heights, tubes, scales, steelyards, funnels, sieves, looking glasses, egg glasses, hour glasses, and glass inkstands. To which are added many chemical experiments, glasses, metallic trees, chimney ornaments, crystalizing tin, silvering copper, distilling spirits, and freezing water in summer; gunpowder, fulminating powders, detonating balls, Waterloo crackers, Lucifer matches, white, blue, lived, crimson, purple, and instantaneous fires; squibs, wheels, crackers, rockets, blue lights, flower pots, and roman candles. is a list of prices of every article required for the experiments / By T. Kentish.
Author: Kentish, Thomas.
Publication: London : Relfe & Fletcher, School Library, 17, Cornhill, 1840.

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76 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill.; 14 cm.

Subject

Science > Experiments > Juvenile literature

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Printer's imprint: "London: T. Goode, Printer, 12, Wilderness-row, Clerkenwell."
Illustration: Folding frontispiece engraving with diagram illustrations of many of the projects described in the text.

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Pforz (Kentish, T. School boy's holiday companion)

OCLC

494191638

Author

Kentish, Thomas.

Title

The school boy's holiday companion; or, Treasury of amusement : explaining the method of constructing air and fire balloons, parachutes, plain and folding kites, stilts, wire baskets, paper globes, stars, caps, bangs, bellows, boxes, boats, serpents, pockets, puzzle notes, fly cages, fly guns, stove patterns, cross bows, compasses, kaleidoscopes, models, and instruments for measuring heights, tubes, scales, steelyards, funnels, sieves, looking glasses, egg glasses, hour glasses, and glass inkstands. To which are added many chemical experiments, glasses, metallic trees, chimney ornaments, crystalizing tin, silvering copper, distilling spirits, and freezing water in summer; gunpowder, fulminating powders, detonating balls, Waterloo crackers, Lucifer matches, white, blue, lived, crimson, purple, and instantaneous fires; squibs, wheels, crackers, rockets, blue lights, flower pots, and roman candles. is a list of prices of every article required for the experiments / By T. Kentish.

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London : Relfe & Fletcher, School Library, 17, Cornhill, 1840.

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Pforzheimer copy: In original cloth binding, rebacked, with printed paper cover label.

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