"What did you do that for, Houdini? You--! Putting up a plant like that on a girl. There is a ruler in that cabinet." During the seance the "teleplasmic" arm appeared, stretched forth a "cold ...

Ehrich Weiss (Harry Houdini) born to Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weiss and his wife Cecelia on March 24 in Budapest, Hungary. At age nine, Ehrich and some neighborhood friends establish a five-cent circus.

In the last years of his life, Harry Houdini became, to borrow the title from one of his books, "A Magician among the Spirits." As the most famous illusionist in the world, Houdini was naturally ...

On March 18, 1910, Harry Houdini made three flights in his Voisin, the third lasting about three and a half minutes. NASM 2001-14087 He wasn’t the first magician to attempt flight. As early as ...