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 92
nd round the right hand,with some distance between the two hands. If your arrange-ment be correct, the string ought to form a Y in the centre TRIOKS 87 of the hand, as seen in the lower part of the illustration.Tlien grasping the end tightly in the right hand as in theupper part of illustration,… … have time to communicate itself to the hands; this is an in-teresting demonstration of the principle of inertia. Cords of considerable thickness can be thus severed with-out any ill effects. The most delicate hands may succeed inthis experiment, provided the jerk be sudden and the cordproperly…
Magic tricks · Games
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