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 235
ary, then, to so fix the wheel, ISH O P, that, wheu made torevolve, the, water shall flow. This ingenious system of cocks having several ways was reproduced iu thesixteenth century by Jacques Besson, in his TJLeatrum Iiistrninentnrum elMachinarum. Besson api:)lied it to a cask provided with… … EGYXTIAN J^UfiTKAl. WATKK VESSEL. CHAPTEU II.MIRACULOUS VESSELS OF THE GEEEKS. THE DICAIOMETER. Heron, in liis Pneumatics, describes a large number of wonderful vesselsthat were used by tlie ancients, and, among them, one called the dicaiometer (a correct measure), which allowed of tlie escape of…
Magic tricks
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