Sunday, August 25, 2013

Modern Magic

                 The founder of modern magic Jean Eugene Robert Houdin (1805 - 1871) was an inventor of many complicated toys and automate.

                His first profitable gadget was an alarm click; a bell wound peal to rouse the Sleeper and a lighted candle would come out of a box. It was for his application of electricity to clocks in general that Houdin was decorated in Paris, In 1855. ( Harry Houdini assumed his name from Houdin's)

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