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 471
Fig. 277. Fig. 278. diameter, with a collar at one end pierced with screw-holes for affix-ing it to the under surface of the table. Within this tube works awire rod, /;, three-sixteenths of an inch thick, and terminating in asmall round disc of brass c, just large enough to work freely up anddown… … Fig. 279. unless when forced upwards by pulling a piece of whipcord, which isattached to the disc c, and thence passes up the tube, and over a smallpulley d, which is soldered to the collaralready mentioned. When this cord ispulled, b is forced to rise, which it does tothe extent of about two…
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