Modern magic. : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring. (1885)
Hoffmann, Professor, 1839-1919, Hawkins, Arthur, ca. 1940 · London ; New York : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 209
ugh its foot. This is placed on a suitable pedestal (seeFig. 82), in which works up and down a steel needle, forming theupper portion of a kind of loose piston, a. The top of the pedestalis covered with green baize, allowing free passage to the needle,which when pushed upward strikes the coin from… … Fig. 82. MODERN MAGIC, 187 contain, among other contrivances, what are called pistons, beingsmall metal rods, which, by pulling a string, are made to rise verti-cally an inch or so above the surface of the table, sinking down againas soon as the cord is released. The pedestal is placed…
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