Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography - Albert A. Hopkins

Schot, K. Physica Curiosa. 2 vols. 1667.

—— Thaumaturgus Physicus sive magiæ universalis naturæ. 1659.

INDEX.

Acres’ projecting device, [500].
Acrobat, weighted, [396].
Altar, Heron’s marvelous, [236].
Altars, marvelous, [210], [211].
Amphitrite, [61].
Ancient magic, [203]-[250].
Anvil, Siegfried’s, [330].
Apple and ninepin, disappearance of, [130].
Aquarium, ink converted into an, [131].
Aquatic locomotion, [480].
Arena, nautical, [345]-[347].
Artist, toy, [376].
Automata, [367]-[379].
Automata and curious toys, [367]-[406].
Automaton, an ancient, [241].
Automaton, curious, [374].
Automaton, the oldest, [206]-[208].
Bacchus, shrine of, [204]-[208].
Baldwins and second sight, the, [196].
Ball, Houdin’s magic, [137].
Ball, the mysterious, [146].
Balsamo, see Cagliostro.
Basket trick, the Indian, [46].
Battle scenes, [308].
Beugnot cited, [5].
Bird that flies, toy, [413].
Birds, photography of, [478].
Black art, [64].
Black ground, photography upon, [425].
Blitz, Signor, [19].
Blue-room trick, [532].
Boiler, Heron’s tubular, [237].
Borders, [259].
Bottle and glass, the traveling, [129].
Bottle magic, [229].
Bridges, [255].
Burlingame, H. J., cited, [6], [19].
Bust, photographic, [448].
Cabaret du Neant, [55].
Cabinet, Houdin’s magic, [81].
Cabinets, Thorn’s, [38].
Cagliostro, [3]-[6].
Cake baked in a hat, [117].
Camera for ribbon photography, [509].
Camera, pinhole, [454].
Carlotti, [6].
Cart, toy, [401].
Cassadaga propaganda, [35].
Catastrophe, photographing a, [447].
Catcher, photo thief, [457].
Caulk, William B., [50].
Cellini, Benvenuto, invokes sorcery, [3].
Centrifugal force, experiments in, [383].
Chariot and pole, [256].
Chess players, automaton, [367].
Chest, Houdin’s magic, [17].
Chronophotographic apparatus, amateur, [485].
Chronophotographic camera, [465].
Chronophotography, [462]-[487].
Cinematograph camera, [508].
Coin, the dissolving, [122].
Coins, magic, [121].
Coins, the multiplication of, [120].
Collar, the spirit, [53].
Columbus’s egg, [397].
Comatula, [484].
Composite photography, [459].
Comus, [7].
Conjurer’s tricks, [106]-[138].
Crash effect, [304].
Crystallized ornaments, [409].
Curious toys, [380].
Curtain, electric, [268].
Curtain, fan drop, [268].
Cybele, the statue of, [209].
Cycloramas, [354]-[361].
D’Ache, M. Caran, [181]-[183].
D’Affre, Monseigneur, [12].
Dance, the skirt, [342].
Dancers, the, [392].
Dark chamber, [467].
Day to night effect, [297].
Death’s head, enchanted, [100].
Decapitation, [48].
Demeny chronophotographic apparatus, [491].
Detective thief catcher, [457].
Doll, phonographic, [402].
Dragon in “Siegfried,” [332].
Drawing, magical, [410].
Drinking horn, Heron’s, [225].
Drops, [259].
Duel, electrical, [342].
Duplex photography, [438].
Egg, Columbus’s, [397].
Egg tricks, [105], [115], [119].
Egypt, magic in ancient, [1].
Elasticity, tricks in, [406].
Electric cyclorama, [358].
Electrical stage effects, [328]-[344].
Electrical toys, [385]-[387].
Electro-photo thief catcher, [457].
Engine, origin of the steam, [234]-[238].
Eolipile, Heron’s, [235].
Escalopier, [12]-[15].
Fafner, [332].
Fire and smoke effects, [305].
Fire, tricks with, [149], [152].
Firearms, theatrical, [309].
Fire eaters, [149], [152].
Fire eaters and sword tricks, [149]-[163].
Firefly, electric, [335].
Fireworks, [362]-[366].
Flies, [254].
Flood, after the, [31].
Flowers, the birth of, [112].
Flowers, the cone of, [106].
Flowers, magic, [109].
Flowers, the queen of, [74].
Forge, Siegfried’s, [328].
Ghost, Pepper’s, [55].
Glass, platinized, [86].
Glass of wine, invisible journey of a, [132].
“Gone,” [520].
Gravity, experiments in, [384].
Greek lamps, toys, etc., [239]-[250].
Gridirons, [253].
Grisi, Comte de, [8]-[10].
Gull, photograph of, [479].
Gun, photographic, [476].
Hagen’s theatrical system, [275].
Half-woman, the living, [69].
Handkerchief tricks, [105], [123], [131], [133].
Harps, magic, [103].
Hat tricks, [114]-[119].
Head, photographing a, [444].
Head, the talking, [69].
Heller and second sight, [185].
Heller, Robert, [19].
Heller, Robert, in the East, [1].
Heron cited, [203]-[250].
Herrmann, Alexander, [21]-[23].
Herrmann, Carl, [19], [21]-[22].
Herrmann, Leon, [23].
Horse, photograph of, [464].
Horse race on the stage. 324.
Horse, the decapitated drinking, [244].
Horse’s gallop, photograph of, [475].
Houdin’s magic ball, [137].
Houdin’s magic cabinet, [81].
Illusion, optical, [380].
Illusive photography, [441].
Ink, goblet of, [131].
Introduction, [1]-[26].
Invention A.D. vs. B.C., [217]-[219].
Isola brothers, [100].
Jacob’s ladder, [399].
Japanese mirrors, [416].
Jewels, electric, [337].
Jugglers, [139], [141].
Jugglers and acrobatic performances, [139]-[148].
Jumping, photograph of, [470].
Kellar, H., [24].
Kellar’s “Queen of Flowers,” [74].
Kinetograph, [488].
Kinetoscope, stereopticon, [495].
Kircher cited, [212], [239].
Kolta, B. de, [24].
Kolta’s appearing lady, [39]-[42].
Ladder, Jacob’s, [399].
Lady, the appearing, [39]-[42].
Lady, the disappearing, [42], [43].
Lamps, perpetual, [239].
Lamps, toys, etc., [239]-[250].
Lavater, [423].
Lightning effect, [302].
Lohengrin’s swan, [312].
Louis XVIII. and Comte de Grisi, [10].
Lustral water vessel, [219], [220].
Lynn, the mystery of Dr., [63].
Mackaye’s theatrical inventions, [273], [274]
Magic, beginning of natural, [2].
Magic boxes, [128].
Magic cabinets, [127].
Magic envelopes, [128].
Magic, mysteries of modern, [1]-[26].
Magic photographs, [456].
Magic portfolios, [127].
Magic table, the, [519].
Magnetic oracle, [391].
Man, a steam, [377].
Marvelous vessels of the Greeks, [221]-[233].
Mask of Balsamo, [100].
Maskelyne, J. M., [24].
Match trick, [408].
Maze, mystic, [84].
Medusa, photography of, [482].
Mental magic, [184]-[202].
Metempsychosis, [532].
Micromotoscope, [514].
Mikado, the, [401].
Mirage, artificial, [438].
Mirrors, Japanese, [416].
Mirrors, magic, [418].
Money maker, [381].
Moon, a trip to the, [348]-[353].
Moon effects, [298].
Mouse, the animated, [135].
Moving pictures, projection of, [488]-[516].
Multiphotography, [451].
Multiple portrait, [450].
Mutograph, [501].
Mutoscope, [501].
Muybridge’s experiments, [467].
Mysterious disappearances, [27]-[54].
Nautical arena, [345]-[347].
Necktie, photographic, [455].
Neoöcultism, [96].
Nostradamus, [3].
Odometers, [247]-[250].
Odors, imitation of, [310].
Opera glass, trick, [412].
Opera house, behind the scenes of an, [251]-[267].
Optical tricks, [55]-[88].
Oracle, magnetic, [391].
Organ, electrical, [263].
Organs, ancient, [230]-[233].
Ornaments, crystallized, [409].
Paint bridge, [264].
Palanquin, the magic, [34].
Palladio’s theater, [289].
Pepper, professor, [8].
Phonographic doll, [402].
Photographic diversions, [423]-[516].
Photographic gun, [476].
Photographic necktie, [455].
Photographic portrait, [448].
Photographing a catastrophe, [447].
Photographing a head, [444].
Photographs, magic, [456].
Photography, composite, [459].
Photography, duplex, [438].
Photography, illusive, [441].
Photography, spirit, [432].
Photography upon black ground, [425].
Photo thief catcher, [456].
Physiological station, [466].
Pictures, moving, projection of, [488]-[516].
Pigeon, photograph of, [479].
Pinetti, [184].
Pinhole camera, [454].
Planchette table, [414].
Platinized glass, [86].
Portrait, multiple, [450].
Portraits, magic, [411].
Post test, spiritualistic, [52].
Princess, the decapitated, [77].
Property room, [265].
Psycho, [368].
Puppets, animated, [170]-[172].
Puzzle, novel, [407].
Race course, electrical, [388].
Race on the stage, [324].
Rainbow effect, [300].
Rain effect, [299].
“Rheingold,” floating women in, [314].
Ribbon photography, [509].
Robert-Houdin, [11]-[19].
Robert-Houdin, second sight, [184].
Robertson, E. G., [7].
Robinson, W. E., [21].
Rochas, A. de, cited, [2].
Rollin, [6].
Rosebush, the magic, [108].
Running, photograph of, [472].
Saint-Amand cited, [4], [5].
Sand frame trick, [136].
Scene painting, [293].
Scenes, changing, [265].
Science in the theater, [251]-[366].
Scurimobile, [94].
Sea horse, photographs of, [481].
Second sight, [125].
Shadowgraphy, [173]-[181].
Shadows, French, [181]-[183].
“She,” [72].
Ship on the stage, [316].
“Siegfried,” effects in, [328]-[355].
Silhouettes, apparatus for taking, [423].
Skirt dance, [342].
Slates, the spirit, [123].
Sliders, [255].
Snow effect, [304].
Spear, Wotan’s, [334].
Spider and the fly, the, [523].
Spirit photography, [432].
Stage, “Asphaleia,” [280].
Stage effects, [293]-[310].
Stage, elevator, [271].
Stage inventions, American, [273]-[276].
Stage, revolving, [276].
Stage tricks, miscellaneous, [89]-[104].
Stages, ancient and modern, [268]-[292].
Stages, opera, [252].
Stars, [298].
Statue giving a double image, [88].
Steam engine, origin of the, [234]-[238].
Stella, [79].
Strobeika Persane, La, [529].
Sun effect, [297].
Sunrise effects, [295].
Sun robe, [315].
Suspended head, [63].
Swan, Lohengrin, [312].
Swing, the haunted, [91].
Switchboard, theater, [261].
Sword swallowers, [156]-[161].
Sword trick, [152].
Sword walker, [161], [163].
Table rapping, [101].
Tachyscope, electric, [489].
Target, the human, [153].
Temple of Dagon, construction of, [323].
Temple tricks of the Greeks, [203]-[220].
Temples, the machinery of, [213]-[217].
Theater, curious pivoted, [287].
Theater, optical, [489].
Theater, Palladio’s, [289].
Theater secrets, [311]-[344].
Theater with two auditoriums, [283].
The dicaiometer, [221].
Thief catcher, photographic, [457].
Thorn, E., [38], [39].
Thought transference, [197]-[202].
Thunder effect, [301].
Ties, spiritualistic, [50].
Torch, electric, [337].
Torpedo, [484].
Torrini, see Grisi.
Toy, a Greek, [243].
Toys, ancient, [393].
Toys electrical, [385]-[393].
Transformation, gradual, [307].
Trapeze, revolving, [142].
Traps, [255], [311].
Trewey the shadowgraphist, [25], [173]-[181].
Trick photography, [423]-[516].
Tricks, miscellaneous, [407]-[421].
Tricks, optical, [55]-[88].
Trilby, the illusion of, [89].
Trunk, the mysterious, [44].
Trunk trick, the, [526].
Tulips, electric, [335].
Tumbler, [397].
Vanity Fair, [27].
Ventriloquism and animated puppets, [164]-[172].
Vessels, magical, [227].
Vicenza, theater at, [289].
Vitascope, [497].
Walking on the ceiling, [144].
Walking, photograph of, [471].
Wave effect, [304].
Wine changed to water, [134].
Woman, the invisible, [102].
Woman, the three-headed, [60].
X-ray illusion, [96].