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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
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There
is
another
box
(the
invention
of
Robert-Houdin)
which
goes
by
the
same
name,
and
with
still
better
title,
inasmuch
as
not
only
the
top
and
bottom,
but
the
sides
and
ends,
are
of
glass,
held
together
by
a
light
metal
framework.
In
appearance
it
is
as
shown
in
Fig.
308,
and,
being
transparent
throughout,
it
appears
physically
impossible
that
any
object
should
be
concealed
in
it;
and
yet,
when
the
box
is
suspended,
and
set
swinging,
the
operator
has
only
to
take
the
(supposed)
borrowed
coins
in
his
hand,
and
to
pronounce
the
mystic
“Pass,”
when
the
eight
half-crowns
are
seen
and
heard
to
fall
into
the
box,
and
may
be
taken
from
thence
by
the
owners
themselves,
without
even
this
near
inspection
of
the
apparatus
revealing
the
secret
of
their
appearance.
As
in
the
trick
we
have
just
described,
electricity
is
the
motive
agent;
but
in
this
instance
it
operates,
not
by
its
magnetic
influence,
but
by
another
of
its
mysterious
properties.
If
a
tolerably
powerful
current
be
made
to
pass
at
some
point
in
its
circuit
through
a
short
length
(say
half
an
inch)
of
fine
platinum
wire,
platinum
being
a
bad
conductor,
the
wire
will,
at
the
moment
of
completing
the
circuit,
be
heated
to
a
white
heat,
or,
if
the
current
be
very
powerful,
will
even
be
fused
altogether.
A
very
few
words
will
show
how
this
simple
scientific
fact
is
made
available
to
produce
the
desired
result.
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