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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
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Hans
Bullman,
a
padlock-maker
of
Nuremberg,
who
lived
in
the
middle
of
the
sixteenth
century,
made
figures
of
men
and
women
which
promenaded
backward
and
forward,
beat
drums,
and
played
upon
the
lute.
The
motive
power
in
this
case
was
known
to
be
clockwork.
In
the
volume
of
“Mémoires
de
l’Académie
des
Sciences,”
of
1729,
we
find
an
account
of
a
most
extraordinary
piece
of
mechanism
invented
by
one
Père
Truchet,
made
solely
for
the
amusement
of
Louis
XIV.
when
a
child.
It
consisted
of
a
number
of
moving
pictures,
representing
an
opera
in
five
acts,
which
the
little
figures
enacted--of
course,
in
pantomime.
Camus
constructed
with
the
same
object
a
small
carriage,
drawn
by
two
horses,
which
contained
a
little
lady,
with
her
coachman
driving,
and
a
footman
and
page
holding
on
behind.
When
placed
upon
the
floor
of
the
table,
the
horses
galloped
along,
and
the
coachman
smacked
his
whip
in
quite
a
professional
manner.
When
the
carriage
stopped,
the
page
got
down,
opened
the
door,
the
lady
stepped
out,
and
with
a
curtsey
bowed
and
presented
a
petition
to
the
young
king.
She
again
bowed,
entered
the
carriage,
the
page
mounted,
the
coachman
flogged
his
horses,
the
carriage
glided
on,
while
the
footman
ran
behind,
and
at
last
jumped
upon
the
box.
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