Wehman Bros.' new book of one hundred and fifty parlor tricks and games : home-made apparatus (1905)
Wehman Bros, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York : Wehman Bros. · leaf 37
33 TRIGKS The Magdeburg Hemispheres* Take two tumblers of the same size. Be careful that tlieyfit closely when one is placed on top the other. Light a pieceof wax candle, and place it within the tumbler on the table.Place on top of it a piece of rather thick paper saturated withwater. Then place… … tration. The tumblers will be found to adhere closely. Thecandle will be extinguished, but while burning it has expandedtlie air contained in the lower tumbler, and this air has there-fore become rarefied. The exterior pressure of the atmospherewill fix the tumblers as closely together as the…
Magic tricks · Games
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