The school boy's holiday companion, or, Treasury of amusement

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.Appended is a list of prices of every article required for the experiments. Illustration: Folding frontispiece engraving with diagram illustrations of many of the projects described in the text. Printer's imprint: ''London: T. Goode, Printer, 12, Wilderness-row, Clerkenwell.''