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 466
ains a brasspiston, faced with zinc on its upper surface, and moved up and downby a lever attached at right angles to one or other of the iron handlesg halready mentioned, and working through a vertical slot in the side ofthe cylinder. A piece of clock-spring, attached to the iron handle atthe… … 444 MODERN MAGIC. the opening, its upper surface resting just flush with that of a a a «.The piston of the forward cylinder c is made to work very easilywithin it, so as to rise spontaneously by the action of the spring; butthat of the hinder cylinder, d, for a reason which will presently appear,
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