Magic; stage illusions and scientific diversions, including trick photography (1897)
Hopkins, Albert A. (Albert Allis), 1869-1939, Evans, Henry Ridgely, b. 1861 · London : Low · leaf 103
86 3IAGIC: STAGE ILLUSIONS AND SCIENTIFIC DIVERSIONS. PLATINIZED GLASS. Platinized glass plates are no longer a novelty, but the illusion is veryeffective. The mirrors give an image in the ordinary way when looked at byreflected light, but are transparent when observed by transmitted light.… … FIG. 1. the Messrs. Dode. This property of transparency by transmitted light affordsa very clever surprise. The mirrors are set in frames. In a panel behind thelatter there is an ai)erture closed by a shutter. As the glass is transparentthere may be seen through it, when the shutter is open,…
Magic tricks
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