Sharpe, S.H.: Conjurers' Hydraulic and Pneumatic Secrets ©1991 Sam H. Sharpe; Michael P. Hades, Canada Hardcover, w/dj, 8.5x11", 164 pages ISBN: 0-921298-07-2

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Comments: Illustrated by Alan Wassilak. Explains some of the fundamental principles of hydraulics and pneumatics as used in magic illusions.

Other books in the series include:
Conjurors' Mechanical Secrets
Conjurors' Optical Secrets
Conjurors' Psychological Secrets

Contents (from book ToC):

1 Introduction
1 Hydraulic And Pneumatic Principles Tabulated

13 Class One Secret Closures Or Retainers

13 A). Soild
13 I. Fixed Closures
13 a) Complete Closures
13 - The Indian Hubble Bubble Jar
14 - A Modified Hubble Bubble Jar
14 - Louis Histed’S Version Of The Hubble Bubble Jar
15 - The Original Chinese Rice Bowls
16 - The Brahmin Rice Bowls
17 - Deluge Water Bowls
18 - The Hindu Lota
19 - A Removable Tubed Lota
20 - A Bottle Lota
20 - The Inexhaustible Punch Bowl
21 - The Greek Dicaiometer
21 - An Improved Hindu Lota
22 b) Partial Or Trap Closures
22 - The Lota For Vanishing Liquids
22 - The Unspillable Inkwell
22 - The Aquarius Water To Ribbons
23 - A Full Or Empty Milk Jug
24 c) Fixed Partial Or Trap Closures
25 - The Foo Can
26 - Liquid Vanish From A Newspaper

27 B). Perforated
27 An Ancient Wine Or Water Jug
28 A New Full-Or-Empty Jug
28 2. Removable Closures Or Retainers
29 a) Retained By Atmospheric Pressure
20 - The Chinese Rice Bowls
31 - The Chung Ling Soo Rice And Water Bowls
32 b) Mechanically Retained
32 - A1 Baker’S Rice Bowls Method
33 - Robert-Houdin’s Water Bowl Closure
36 - The Marvellous Equilibrium
38 - Philippe’s Method
39 - Producing A Tray Of Full Glasses
40 - Carrying Water In A Sieve
41 c) Nested Containers
42 Germain’S Water Jugs

47 Class Two Liquid Substitutes
47 a) Painted Substitutes
47 b) Shell Substitutes
47 - New Vanishing Ink On Hand
48 - The Wandering Stout
49 - The Wine Proof
50 - A Cloth Substitute

55 Class Three Secret Reservoirs
55 1. Enclosed Reservoirs
55 - The Double Funnel
56 The Glass Reservoir Funnel
56 Tray Reservoirs
57 The Mermaid Ilusion
57 2. Exterior Or Detached Reservoirs
57 - An Inexhaustible Lustral Bowl
59 - Hartz’s Inexhaustible Punch Bowl
59 - The Vanishing Divers

65 Class Four Displacement
65 1. Secret Lining Displacers
65 - Anverdi’s Modification
67 - Multum In Parvo
67 - The Filtering Ink Experiment
69 - The De Muth Milk Bottle
70 2. Submerged Displacers 70
70 a) Solid Displacers
70 - Full Or Empty
72 b) Hollow Displacers
72 c) Inflatable Displacers

75 Class Five Secret Conduits
75 1. Hidden Conduits
75 - The Undrinkable Cup Of Tantalus
76 - Overflowing Vases And Coconut
78 2. Transparent Conduits
78 a) Normal Transparent Connections
78 b) Double Transparency Conduits
78 - Water Column Control
79 c) Prismatic Reflectors
80 3. Surface Conduits
81 4. Liquid Stream Conduits
81 - The Mysterious Water Faucet

85 Class Six Secret Siphons
85 a) Simple Siphons
86 - The Glass Tomb Of Belus
86 - The Witch’s Cauldron
87 - Vanishing Liquid From A Goblet
88 b) The Pre-Primed Siphon
88 c) The Self-Priming Siphon
89 d) The Wick Siphon
89 - The Changing Liquids - Water To Wine
90 e) Intermittent Siphons

95 Class Seven Hydraulic And Pneumatic Control
95 1. Buoyancy Or Flotation Devices
95 a) Self-Buoyancy
95 - Flotation Pistons
95 - Automata Controlled By Floats
95 - Mechanism Worked By Flotation Devices
96 -- Conradi's Glass Through Hat
99 b) Inflation
99 - A Magic Fruit Tree
99 - The Glove Column
100 - Producing Balloons " 100
100 c) Altered Specific Gravity
100 2. Control By Air Pressure, Liquid Pressue Or Suction
101 a) Air Lock
101 - The Spurting Drinker
102 Intermittent Air Lock
102 - The Bunder Boat
103 - A Greek Wine Dispenser
104 - The Bottle Imp
105 - The Diving Fish
105 - An Impromptu Bottle Imp
195 - Self-Raising Divers
106 - The Thirsty Man's Bowls
107 - Water Spouting (Regurgitation)
108 - Come Or Go Wine
109 - Hofzinser’s Squeeze-Ball Glass
109 - Anverdi’s Squeeze-Ball Tray
111 - The Japanese Water Fountains
111 - The Water Sprite
115 - Single-Handed Fountains
116 - The Bewitched Water Fountain
117 - The Wine Spigot
118 3. Pneumatically Controlled Automata
119 Maskelyne’s ‘Psycho’
120 J.N. Maskelyne & Clarke’s Automaton Control Patent
120 Maskelyne And Cooke’s Means For Actuating Automaton Mechanism
121 a) Plate-Lifter Control
122 - Pneumatic Thought Transference
122 - The Magic Pendulum
122 - Devant’s “Bogey Golf”
122 b) Airjet Control
122 - A Pneumatic Obedient Ball
123 - Air Jet Levitation
123 - Air Jet Speed Control
124 - Pneumatic Rapping Hands
124 - The Rolling Tube
125 - The Swinging Match
125 c) Vortex-Ring Control
125 d) Control By Thermal Change
126 - The Ordeal Of Boiling Water
126 - Yu-Bana Or Yukagura
128 - The Thermostat
128 - Dippy Duck

131 Appendix 1 - Scientific Magical Invention And Characterization
143 Appendix 2 - What Happened To “Psycho”?