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MAGIC THICKS I SCIENCE FACTS BY FRIEDHOFFER, THE MADMAN OF MAGIC MAGIC TRICKS, SCIENCE FACTS Ufaystte Public libra t 775 Wt«t BaMlir* Rd. 80026 Ufay«tt« CO FRIEDHOFFER, THE MADMAN OF MAGIC magic tricks, science facts ILLUSTRATED BY RICHARD KAUFMAN PHOTOGRAPHS BY TIMOTHY WHITE FRANKLIN WATTS NEW YORK LONDON TORONTO SYDNEY — Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Friedhoffer, Robert. Magic tricks, illustrated science facts / Madman of Magic photographs by Timothy White. cm. Friedhoffer, the by Richard Kaufman ; p. ; Includes bibliographical references Summary: Presents several magic tricks (p. based on ). principles of physics, math, chemistry, and physiology. ISBN 0-531 -10902-X 1. Tricks —Juvenile literature. 2. Scientific recreations Magic tricks. 2. Scientific recreations.] Kaufman, Richard, Title. GV1548.F75 1990 89-28487 CIP AC 793.8— dc20 First Paperback Edition 1990 ISBN 0-531-15186-7 Text copyright © 1990 by Robert Friedhoffer Illustrations copyright © 1990 by Richard Kaufman Photographs copyright © 1990 by Timothy White Juvenile literature. [1. ill. I. All rights Printed in II. reserved the United States of America 12 11 ALSO BY FRIEDHOFFER, THE MADMAN OF MAGIC How to Haunt a House for Halloween To my parents, Nat and Rita Friedhoffer I hope this would have made them proud ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks for their to the following folks help and encouragement: Steve Mark, Suzanne Phillips, Iris Rosoff, Margie Leather, Raphael Bogarin, Imam and Evelyn, Timothy White, Richard Kaufman, Brian Werther, Steve Pinsky, Bob Wolen, Lorraine Zeller, Lee Freed, Lou Stevens, Abbi Lindner, Dr. Helene Mayer, David Pedowitz, Carl Stenquist, Tom Ladshaw, George Magdaleno, Art Kahn, Harvey and Rona Maltz, Annette Choynacki, Trish Sands, and Eric and Sara Rosoff Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 http://archive.org/details/magictricksscienOOrobe CONTENTS A Note to Parents and Teachers 15 Preface 17 Introduction 19 PHYSICS Haunted Matchbox 25 Rising Ring 30 Mystic Tubes of Cairo 33 The Strength of Four 39 Old Salts' Card Trick 42 Can You Catch It? 46 The Great Escape 49 Hydrostatic Glass 54 The Ever-Popular Floating Balloon 58 Cold Control 62 Law-Breaking Paper Clips 64 Chop Chop's Cup 67 MATH Can You Count? 75 Fourth-Dimensional Sculpture 77 Twenty-One Card Trick Match Game 85 Betcha's 87 81 CHEMISTRY Ghost in the Giass 93 Mystic Sands 96 Signed in Blood 101 Bloody Fingerprint 104 PHYSIOLOGY Heartbeat of a Fakir 109 Human Bridge 112 Conclusion 117 For Further Reading 119 Suppliers 121 Index 123 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke The Lost Worlds of 2001 "The magic the science Bob of the past is of the future." Friedhoffer MAGIC TRICKS, SCIENCE FACTS A NOTE TO PARENTS TEACHERS AND This book attempts ested in become to