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 547
the sameprinciple. As will be seen by the illustration given above, a box wasplaced upon a table, and at word of command the box opened and aharlequin was discovered therein. At a sign from the conjurer thefigure leaped from the box, and then, apparently without beingattached in any way to the box,… … ANCIENT AND MODERN MAGIC. rels which the application of the simple laws of mechanics mightproduce ; and his great mechanical genius enabled him to succeedeven better than he hoped when first he began his investigations ofthe automata that had already been exhibited. The mechanism of the Magic…
Magic tricks
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