Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 445
o the sides, reflectimages of these to the spectators when the door is opened, and the spec-tators see then the box apparently empty, for the reflection of the sidesappears to them as the back of the cabinet. The entertainment was some-times varied by a skeleton appearing, on the door being opened,… … Fig. 200.—A atase Illusion. To the same inventive gentleman, whose ingenious use of plane mirrorshas thus largely increased the resources of the public entertainer, is dueanother stage illusion, the effect of which is represented in Fig. 200 ; and,although it does not depend on reflection, it may…
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