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MAGIC THICKS
I
SCIENCE FACTS BY FRIEDHOFFER, THE MADMAN OF MAGIC
MAGIC
TRICKS,
SCIENCE FACTS
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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
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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