The magician's own book, or The whole art of conjuring (1862)
Arnold, George, 1834-1865, Cahill, Frank · New York, Dick & Fitzgerald · leaf 171
ons, so as to hold three or four persons,who are supplied with air from aboveby means of a tube, having a correspond-ing tube to let off the breathed air, the circulation of whichis kept up by pumps, which pump the air in and draw it outof the bell. THE AIR BALLOON. The art of sailing or navigating… … PNEUMATICS AND iEROSTATICS. 155 reason to believe, from some figures that have recently beendiscovered on Egyptian and Assyrian monuments, that theancients possessed means of rising in the air with whichwe are not now acquainted. The air-balloon, as now constructed, is a bag of silk oflarge…
Magic tricks
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