Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography
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Stage illusions are explained here as applications of optics, mechanics, sound and electricity, with four hundred illustrations. Albert A. Hopkins compiled the effects associated with Robert-Houdin, Maskelyne and Cooke, Kellar, Herrmann and other conjurers, and adds ventriloquism, shadowgraphy and mental magic, the temple tricks and automata of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, and the machinery behind a stage production of the opera Siegfried. The last chapters cover photographic amusements, including trick pictures, chronophotography and the projection of moving images. Henry Ridgely Evans contributes a history of magic as the introduction.
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- Author
- Albert A. Hopkins
- Reading time
- About 12 hours
- Pages
- 631
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Popular Science
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online