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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 395

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le, X-Kay Machine. Wonder of the age! Butit is neither an X-ray machine nor a wondei. It is simply a reduced copy ofan ancient trick. The two cylinders mounted on the base, with a space betweenthem, are perforated axially and are supposed to represent coils. When the eyeis applied to the end of oue… … V-^^ XliAY .\1A( IUM; Willi AO X JiAY. CURIOUS TOYS. 381 ently be seen through the coin. Fig. 2 affords an explanation. The hole ineach cylinder is intercepted bv a mirror- arranged at an angle of forty-fivedegrees with the axis of the cylinder, and in the base are two mirrors arrangedparallel with…

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