The magician's own book, or The whole art of conjuring (1862)
Arnold, George, 1834-1865, Cahill, Frank · New York, Dick & Fitzgerald · leaf 149
if he be charged with much electricity, Each hair will stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine. A wooden head, not your own, but areal wooden head, with a wig ofstreaming hair, and a handsome faceto correspond, may be made in the fol-lowing form, with a wire in the neckto support it… … EXPERIMENTS IN ELECTRICITY. 133 IMITATION THUNDERCLOUDS,To show the manner in which thunderclouds perform theiroperations in the air. a a is a wooden stand, on which areerected two uprights, b b ; c c are two small pulleys, overwhich a silken cord can pull easily; e is another silken linestretched…
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