User:Jpecore

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Joe Pecore, A Paul Harris fanatic. My contributions to MagicPedia.

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Wikipedia magicians to bring over

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Hyman

Magicians to research

Christopher Clayton Hutton

a British magic buff and journalist that developed escape-and-evasion gadgets for MI9 during World War II.

Wrote "Official Secret: The Remarkable Story of Escape Aids - Their Invention, Production" (1960).

Daniel Stashower

Author and semi-pro magician published two novels about conjuring. Also wrote Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle (1999)

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Did you know?

• The Ring in Nest of Boxes dates back to 1751?
• The Aquarius Tube and Ribbons was first described by Claude Chandler in 1914?
• The Rising Card Effect first appeared in print in 1626?
• The Sympathetic Silks trick was invented by Edward Victor?
• Spring Flowers were invented by Buatier de Kolta?
• The Vent Talking Hand was first performed in 1796?
• A Cigarette Act was first presented in Paris by the Spanish magician, Franz-Klint, in 1916?
• With the exception of a short description of the Pass and the Force by Guyot in 1769, Henri Decremps (1746-1826) was the first writer in any language to explain the basic card sleights?
• The Sliding Die Box was invented by Alex Davis, an Englishman, who first performed it in the U.S.A. about 1886. The Rights were sold to Otto Mauer, a New York Dealer, who advertised it in 1897?
• Bill Stickland published a method a Balloon Penetration?
• The 20th Century Silks effect was first performed by David Devant, and his method later explained in Hoffmann's ' Later Magic' (1904)?
• The Wild Card was invented by Peter Kane of Manchester, and shown by him months before it was ' invented' and marketed in the U.S.A.?
• David Devant invented the Dyed Handkerchief Through Paper Tube and first presented the trick in 1893?
• Mystic Craig was using rope magnets
• A Vanishing Cane made of spring steel, was described in the July 1899 issue of Mahatma?
• Selbit was first to perform the Magic Bricks?
• Buatier de Kolla was the first lo produce flowers from a Cone, and Billiard Balls at the fingertips using a half shell?
• the shell stack of coins was in the 4 Anatomie of Legerdemain 1634?
• the carbon or impression card was first described in the March 1920 'Magic Wand"?
• David Devant invented the Dyed Handkerchiefs and first presented the trick in 1893?
• Hocus Pocus is derived from the Latin " Hoc est corpus meum '?
• That although James Wobensmith is generally credited with the 4 one band adaptation of the Afghan Bands, credit really belongs to Ted Beal, who was first to do the trick with one band and published it in Naldrett's 'More Collected Magic" in 1921. The single colour-change handkerchief using a 11 esh-coloured tube with tape divider was first mentioned in 'Later Magic" (1904) and credited by Hoffmann to Ellis Stanyon. But in Robertson Keene's ' More Novel Notes and Notions" (1907), the inventor is named as James Carl (James Wakefield) and it is quite possible he had used it for some considerable time before parsing it on to Keene.