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Harry Houdini: The Most Famous Magician

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Some of the most famous magician these day like: David Copperfield,Criss Angel,David Blaine,…They’re famous magician of these days with their insane magic performance.They’re the young generation and very talented,but how about the old generation they were also very famous at their times but until now their halo seems to be gone.So how can you still keeping your halo when you get old or die?Then you have to do something extraordinary just like the most famous magician and escape artist Harry Houdini. Harry Houdini, probably the most famous magician whoever lived. He performed life threatening stunts in just minutes and amazed thousands of people .This is what make him so memorable. Harry Houdini was born on March 24, 1874 in Budapest, …show more content…

To complete the act, Houdini would nonstop trying difference keys until it open.One of Houdini biggest invention is his belt,the belt was made of flexible steel which contain special compartments within a double wall,this made the most difficult problem in performing solved, the accessibility.With this belt Houdini could acess any tool with just a slight of hand.Houdini became the master of Handcuff because when he went to different town he always studied the local police handcuff and some “special” handcuff, by using that technic Houdini could escape from one of the most difficult handcuff example the …show more content…

In Liverpool, he free himself from three pairs of handcuffs, unlocked his cell door, and the doors of all the other cells in a local prison. In Washington, D.C., he escaped from Murderers ' Row where he was able to open the doors of eight other cells and shuffle the prisoners around, so that each was found in a different cell. In Boston City Prison, Houdini managed to escape the handcuffs and his cell as well as dig the prison wall and reach his phone at about half a mile away, where he phoned the prison Superintendent, all in 20

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