ATOCI: Electric Toymaking for Amateurs [ETMA]

CHAPTER I
BATTERIES.
Primary batteries in General - Batteries with Electric Light Carbons - A Tomato Can Battery - Materials for Battery Cells. 9

CHAPTER II
PERMANENT MAGNETS.
How to Magnetize Steel Bars - Rolling Armatures - Mahomet's Coffin - Magnetic Jack-straws - The Magnetic Top - The Magnetic Pendulum - Mayer's Floating Needles. - Magnetic Fishes, and the Magnetic Swan Boat, etc. 23

CHAPTER III
ELECTRO-MAGNETICS.
Construction of Electro Magnets - Magnetizing Coils - The Magic Circle - Magnetic Hemispheres. 37

CHAPTER IV.
ELECTRIC MOTORS.
Pendulum Coil Motor - Recordon Magnet Motor - Multi-polar Motor - Page's Rotating Armature - The Electric Locomotive. 46

CHAPTER V.
ELECTRIC BELLS.
The Tolling Bell, The Vibrating Bell - The Safe Protector. 65

CHAPTER VL
MISCELLANEOUS TOYS
The Electric Dancer - The Magic Drum - The Electric Hammer - Electric Insects - The Incandescent Lamp. 73

CHAPTER VII.
SPARK AND INDUCTION COILS, AND ALLIED SUBJECTS.
The Spark Coil, - The Induction Coil - Recordon's Induction Coil - The Magnetio Generator - Electric Artillery - Electric Gymnastics - Ano Kato - Simple Experiments in Static Electricity. 80

CHAPTER VIII.
HAND POWER DYNAMO. 121

CHAPTER 1X.
MISCALLANEOUS RECEIPTS AND FORMULAE. 123




INDEX



ALARM or safe protector. 69-72
Amalgamation of zincs in batteries. 15
Ano-Kato. 116-118
Ano-Kato in show case. 118,119
Armature, Page's rotating. 56-59
Armature, Page's rotating, its commutator. 58
Armatures, rolling. 28 29
Artillery, electric. 107-111
BALLOONS, experiment with rubber. 119, 120
Bars, steel, to magnetize. 23-28
Batteries. 9-22
Batteries, bichromate. 11,12
Batteries, copper sulphate. 9, 10
Batteiics, dip. 11,12
Batteries, miniature, from electric light carbons. 13
Batteries, primary, in general. 9
Batteries, sal ammoniac. 13
Batteries with electric light carbons. 15-20
Battery from a tomato can, 20, 21
Battery, gravity. 10
Battery, Lalande Chaperon. 21
Battery, Leclanche. 10, 11
Battery, silver chloride. 13-15
Buttery solution, Trouve's. 12
Battery troughs of wood. 22
Bells, electric. 65-72
Bell, the tolling. 65-67
Bell, the vibrating. 67-69
Boat. Magnetic. 36
Burglar alarm. 69-72
CARBONS, applying parafflne to. 16
Carbons, electric light in batteries. 15-20
Cells, materials for. 21. 22
Circle, the magic. 42, 43
Circuit breaker, pendulum. 83-85
Circuit breakers for induction coils. 97,98
Coil, pendulum motor. 46-49
Coils, induction and spark. 89-104
Coils, induction, condensers of. 99-101
Coils, magnetizing, to make. 40-42
Coils, spark and induction. 89-104
Coil to magnetize with 27
Condensers of induction coils 99-101
Copal gum for coils 42
Copper oxide in battery 20, 21
Core of coils, how made 89,90
DANCER, the electric 73-76
Dancer, the electric, battery required for 76
Drum, the magic 76-79
Dynamo, hand power 121-127
ELECTRIC artillery 107-111
Electric bell, key for 67
Electric bells 65-72
Electric dancer 73-76
Electric dancer, battery required for 76
Electric gymnastics 111-116
Electric hammer 79-82
Electric insects 82-87
Electric insects, circuit breaker for 83-85
Electric insects, mercury switch for 86,87
Electric light carbons in batteries 15-20
Electric locomotive 59-64
Electric mortar 107
Electric motors 46-64
Electric Pistol 108-110
Electro-magnet from gas-pipe
Electro-magnet, Joule's 38, 39
Electro-magnets 37 45
Electro-magnet, solenoid 39, 40
Electro-magnets, their construction 37-10
FIRE CRACKER explosions and fuses 110, 111
Fishes, magnetic 36
Force, lines of, followed by polarized needle 29, 30
Formulas and receipts, miscellaneous 128
Foncanlt's experiment 32-34
Fuses, fire cracker 110, 111
GENERATOR, the magneto. 104-107
Gluing Coils 41. 42
Gymnastics, electric 111-116
HAMMER, the electric 79-82
Hemispheres, magnetic 43-45
Hopkin's electric insects 82-87
Hopkin's magic drum 76-79
INCANDESCENT lamp 87,88
Induction coil, Recordon's. 102-104
Induction coils 91-104
Induction coils, condensers of 99-101
Insects, electric 82-87
Insects, electric, circuit breaker 83-85
Insects, eleciric, mercury switch for 86,87
Iron scraps in battery 20
JACK-STRAWS, magnetic 30,31
Joule's electromagnet 38,39
KEEPERS of magnets 27,28
Key for electric bell 67
LALANDE-Chaperon battery 21
Lamp, incandescent 87,88
Lamp, platinum, self-regulating 87, 88
Locomotive, the electric.. 59'-64
MAGIC circle 42,43
Magic drum 76-79
Magnetic fishes, swan, boat, etc.
Magnetic hemispheres 43-45
Magnetic jack-straws 30. 31
Magnetic pendulum 32-34
Magnetic swan 36
Magnetic top 31,32
Magnetizing by a dynamo 25
Magnetizing by an electro magnet 25. 26
Magnetizing by a permanent magnet. 24. 25
Magnetizing coils, to make. 40-42
Magnetizing, Elia's method. 27
Magnetizing. Jacobin method. 26. 27
Magnetizing steel bars 23,28
Magnetizing with a coil 27
Magneto-generator 104-107
Magnets, compound 26
Magnet, ill effects of jarring and filing 28
Magnets, permanent 23-36
Magnets, to preserve 27, ?8
Mahomet's coffin 29,30
Mahomet's coffin with solenoid. 40
Mayer's floating needles 34, 35
Miscellaneous formulas and receipts 138-138
Miscellaneous toys. 73 88
Mortar, electric 107, 108
Motor, multipolar 51-56
Motor, multipolar, its commutator. 53-55
Motor, pendulum coil 46-49
Motor, Recordon magnet 49-51
Multipolar motor 51-56
Multipolar motor, its commutator 53-55
NEEDLES, Mayer's floating 34, 35
OXIDE of copper in battery 20,21
PAGE'S rotating armature 56-59
Page's rotating armature, its commutator 58
Page's solenoid magnets 39
Paraffine. applying to carbons. 16
Pendulum circuit breaker 83-85
Pendulum coil motor 46-49
Pendulum, the magnetic 32-34
Pistol, electric or voltaic. 108-110
RECEIPTS and formulas, miscellaneous 128-138
R ('cordon's induction coil. 102-104
Recordon magnet motor 49-M
Rolling armatures 28, 29
Rolling armatures, repulsion of. 29
Rotating armature, Page's. 56-59
Rotating armature, Page's, its commutator 58
Rubber balloon experiment. 119, 120
Rubber thread experiment. 120
SAFE protector. 09-72
Show case. Ano-Kato 118,119
Soda, caustic, in battery 20
Solenoid electro-magnet 39. 40
Solenoid of electric hammer. 81. 82
Spark coils 89, 91
Static electricity, simple experiments in 118-120
Steel bars, to magnetize 23-28
S ivan, magnetic 36
Switch, mercury, for electric insects 86. 87
TOLLING bell r. 5-07
Top, the magnetic 31-83
Toys, miscellaneous 73-88
Trouve, battery solution 12
VIBRATING bell 07-69
Voltaic pistol 108-110
Zinc, amalgamation of, in batteries. 15