Harry Houdini's Accomplishments

Harry Houdini is famous for his background because of his childhood, education, and his famous trick vanishing elephant. First In his childhood” His family immigrated to the United States in 1878 and started living in Appleton, Wisconsin, where they changed their surname to German Weiss”“Biography.com Editors”. At 4 years old he helped sell newspapers and shine shoes. He started performing as a magician in dime museums, sideshows and circuses in 1891 but didn’t see much success. He then took up escape acts using handcuffs. Secondly Houdini did a trick and everyone loved it and was so amazed by it. The vanishing elephant trick was performed on January 7th 1918, at New York’s Hippodrome Theater. How the trick was performed wasn’t magic just common

He was famous for a few tricks like The Chinese water torture trick, It was performed on October 11th 1926. How it was performed again most of tricks isn’t really magic, in this trick the stocks were rigged or loosened for him to wiggle his feet out of. One time performing this trick he fractured one of ankles. Houdini’s second trick was the Milk can; this one is more intense, only if you don’t know what is really going on. “John Cox” This famous trick was performed January 27th 1908 at Columbia Theaters in ST Louis. How it was performed, was at the top of the can there is headroom for Houdini to breathe in the lid. At the top the lid was scared with padlocks and nails, but they were rigged so he can just twist the lid and get out. When he did that he would just read the newspaper in the back to make it Intense for the audience, thinking he was escaping. Lastly is his most famous trick of all time and craziest. It is the Straight Jacket Escape It was performed on 46th street and Broadway in Manhattan Circa 1915. Houdini was in a Straight Jacket that was used to contain a crazy person, he was hung upside down, but He would have his dominant hand on top to help loosen it. After he would get it loosened he would unbuckle the buckles with his hand, then cut the rope with his teeth or have a cutting tool in hand before. In addition without Harry Houdini’s Achievements he wouldn’t be who he