Conjurers' Hydraulic and Pneumatic Secrets
Title: Conjurers' Hydraulic and Pneumatic Secrets
Author: S.H. Sharpe
ISBN: 0-921298-07-2
Publisher: Hades Publications, Canada
Publication Date: 1991
Hardcover
Book Size: 9"x11"
Pages: 159
Edition: 1st Edition
Book Condition: Excellent-Like New-Mint
Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent-Like New-Includes clear Mylar cover!
Within the pages of this work, historian S.H. Sharp defines and describes seven fundamental principals; including secret: Closures; Reservoirs; Conduits; Liquid Substitutes; Displacement; Siphons; and Hydraulic and Pneumatic Control. The author traces hydraulics and pneumatics as used in the religious wonders of early history – moving and speaking statues, inexhaustible vessels, unfillable basins, etc. – to today’s modern Lotta Bowl, Foo Can, Multum in Parvo, Mermaid Illusion, various automata, etc.
Also included in this massive work are two special appendices: Scientific Magical Invention and Characterization – a system on which to base the scientific invention or creation of new magical illusions; What Happened to ‘Psycho’? – an essay which traces the chronology of the automaton from 1875 to modern times.
This outstanding instructive work is a must. It contains technique every magician should know about! This volume is one of a series of four books describing the basic principles of magic The other books in the series are Conjurers' Optical Secrets, Conjurers' Mechanical Secrets, and Conjurers' Psychological Secrets.
"No magic reference shelf would be complete without SH Sharpe's Conjurers' Optical Secrets, Conjurers' Mechanical Secrets, Conjurers' Psychological Secrets, and Conjurers' Hydraulic and Pneumatic Secrets. These excellent books give a brief, understandable overview of nearly every major principle in magic". -John Carney, Secrets
Contents:
1 Introduction
1 Hydraulic And Pneumatic Principles Tabulated
13 Class One Secret Closures Or Retainers
13 A). Soild
13 I. Fixed Closures
13 a) Complete Closures
13 – The Indian Hubble Bubble Jar
14 – A Modified Hubble Bubble Jar
14 – Louis Histed’S Version Of The Hubble Bubble Jar
15 – The Original Chinese Rice Bowls
16 – The Brahmin Rice Bowls
17 – Deluge Water Bowls
18 – The Hindu Lota
19 – A Removable Tubed Lota
20 – A Bottle Lota
20 – The Inexhaustible Punch Bowl
21 – The Greek Dicaiometer
21 – An Improved Hindu Lota
22 b) Partial Or Trap Closures
22 – The Lota For Vanishing Liquids
22 – The Unspillable Inkwell
22 – The Aquarius Water To Ribbons
23 – A Full Or Empty Milk Jug
24 c) Fixed Partial Or Trap Closures
25 – The Foo Can
26 – Liquid Vanish From A Newspaper
27 B). Perforated
27 An Ancient Wine Or Water Jug
28 A New Full-Or-Empty Jug
28 2. Removable Closures Or Retainers
29 a) Retained By Atmospheric Pressure
20 – The Chinese Rice Bowls
31 – The Chung Ling Soo Rice And Water Bowls
32 b) Mechanically Retained
32 – A1 Baker’S Rice Bowls Method
33 – Robert-Houdin’s Water Bowl Closure
36 – The Marvellous Equilibrium
38 – Philippe’s Method
39 – Producing A Tray Of Full Glasses
40 – Carrying Water In A Sieve
41 c) Nested Containers
42 Germain’S Water Jugs
47 Class Two Liquid Substitutes
47 a) Painted Substitutes
47 b) Shell Substitutes
47 – New Vanishing Ink On Hand
48 – The Wandering Stout
49 – The Wine Proof
50 – A Cloth Substitute
55 Class Three Secret Reservoirs
55 1. Enclosed Reservoirs
55 – The Double Funnel
56 The Glass Reservoir Funnel
56 Tray Reservoirs
57 The Mermaid Ilusion
57 2. Exterior Or Detached Reservoirs
57 – An Inexhaustible Lustral Bowl
59 – Hartz’s Inexhaustible Punch Bowl
59 – The Vanishing Divers
65 Class Four Displacement
65 1. Secret Lining Displacers
65 – Anverdi’s Modification
67 – Multum In Parvo
67 – The Filtering Ink Experiment
69 – The De Muth Milk Bottle
70 2. Submerged Displacers 70
70 a) Solid Displacers
70 – Full Or Empty
72 b) Hollow Displacers
72 c) Inflatable Displacers
75 Class Five Secret Conduits
75 1. Hidden Conduits
75 – The Undrinkable Cup Of Tantalus
76 – Overflowing Vases And Coconut
78 2. Transparent Conduits
78 a) Normal Transparent Connections
78 b) Double Transparency Conduits
78 – Water Column Control
79 c) Prismatic Reflectors
80 3. Surface Conduits
81 4. Liquid Stream Conduits
81 – The Mysterious Water Faucet
85 Class Six Secret Siphons
85 a) Simple Siphons
86 – The Glass Tomb Of Belus
86 – The Witch’s Cauldron
87 – Vanishing Liquid From A Goblet
88 b) The Pre-Primed Siphon
88 c) The Self-Priming Siphon
89 d) The Wick Siphon
89 – The Changing Liquids – Water To Wine
90 e) Intermittent Siphons
95 Class Seven Hydraulic And Pneumatic Control
95 1. Buoyancy Or Flotation Devices
95 a) Self-Buoyancy
95 – Flotation Pistons
95 – Automata Controlled By Floats
95 – Mechanism Worked By Flotation Devices
96 — Conradi’s Glass Through Hat
99 b) Inflation
99 – A Magic Fruit Tree
99 – The Glove Column
100 – Producing Balloons ” 100
100 c) Altered Specific Gravity
100 2. Control By Air Pressure, Liquid Pressue Or Suction
101 a) Air Lock
101 – The Spurting Drinker
102 Intermittent Air Lock
102 – The Bunder Boat
103 – A Greek Wine Dispenser
104 – The Bottle Imp
105 – The Diving Fish
105 – An Impromptu Bottle Imp
195 – Self-Raising Divers
106 – The Thirsty Man’s Bowls
107 – Water Spouting (Regurgitation)
108 – Come Or Go Wine
109 – Hofzinser’s Squeeze-Ball Glass
109 – Anverdi’s Squeeze-Ball Tray
111 – The Japanese Water Fountains
111 – The Water Sprite
115 – Single-Handed Fountains
116 – The Bewitched Water Fountain
117 = The Wine Spigot
118 3. Pneumatically Controlled Automata
119 Maskelyne’s ‘Psycho’
120 J.N. Maskelyne & Clarke’s Automaton Control Patent
120 Maskelyne And Cooke’s Means For Actuating Automaton Mechanism
121 a) Plate-Lifter Control
122 – Pneumatic Thought Transference
122 – The Magic Pendulum
122 – Devant’s “Bogey Golf”
122 b) Airjet Control
122 – A Pneumatic Obedient Ball
123 – Air Jet Levitation
123 – Air Jet Speed Control
124 – Pneumatic Rapping Hands
124 – The Rolling Tube
125 – The Swinging Match
125 c) Vortex-Ring Control
125 d) Control By Thermal Change
126 – The Ordeal Of Boiling Water
126 – Yu-Bana Or Yukagura
128 – The Thermostat
128 – Dippy Duck
131 Appendix 1 – Scientific Magical Invention And Characterization
143 Appendix 2 – What Happened To “Psycho”?
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