All the Secrets of Magic Revealed - Herbert L. Becker

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Foreword ix

Introduction xv

David Copperfield, The All-Time Greatest Magician 1

Copperfield’s Museum: The Preservation of the History of Magic 6

More Facts and Notes about David Copperfield 9

The Secrets of David CopperfiekTs Project Magic 11

The Impossible Knot 11

The Jumping Rubber Band 17

The Challenge Jumping Rubber Band 20

Linking Paper Clips 22

Robert Houdin, Father of Modern Magic 25

Tip Over Trunk 28

Broomstick Suspension 30

Indian Rope Trick 32

Howard Thurston, Magic Reborn 35

Levitation 37

Flash Production 38

Black Art Magic 40

Harry Kellar, Master Magician 45

Dollhouse Illusion 48

Circle, Square and Square, Circle 51

S-Suspension 55

Harry Houdini, The Escape Artist 59

Substitution Trunk 63

Walking through a Brick Wall 66

Pea Shell Game 68

Houdini’ s Water Torture Cell 69

Hardeen, Brother of Houdini 73

Chair Suspension 75

Sawing a Woman in Half 77

Walter Gibson, The Writer 81

Linking Rings 83

Sword Cabinet 85

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Mark Wilson, The New Magician 89

Sword Suspension 91

Needle through Balloon 93

Doug Henning, Magic of the Seventies 95

Zigzag 97

Mismatch Woman 100

Water Jet Suspension 102

Floating Ball 108

Kreskin, Mind Reader 113

Bag of Money 116

Lock and Key 117

Find the Paycheck 118

ESP and Social Security Numbers 120

Kardeen, The Next Generation 123

Straitjacket Escape 125

Woman to Tiger 126

Siegfried and Roy, Doing the Impossible 131

Removing the Middle 133

Tiger to Assistant 134

The Final Word 141

Index 143