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 ====== Jumping Match or Toothpick (Pulse Detector) ====== ====== Jumping Match or Toothpick (Pulse Detector) ======
  
-In this trick one match, resting on another, suddenly jumps, due to friction secretly applied on the supporting match by your fingernail. The trick appeared without attribution in Walter Gibson's column "After Dinner Tricks" in //[[http://www.conjuringcredits.com/lib/tpl/credits/files/1922-12-05-Duluth-Herald.pdf|The Duluth Herald Daily Magazine]]//, 1922.+In this trick one match, resting on another, suddenly jumps, due to friction secretly applied on the supporting match by your fingernail. The trick appeared without attribution in Walter Gibson's column "After Dinner Tricks" in //[[http://www.conjuringcredits.com/lib/tpl/credits/files/1922-12-05-Duluth-Herald.pdf|The Duluth Herald Daily Magazine]]//, 1922, n.p.
  
-It later found its way into books, for example Will Goldston's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18563/Great+Tricks+Revealed/45|Great Tricks Revealed]]//, 1935, p. 31. In the same year it was also included in an article on impromptu magic by Harry Blackstone in //[[http://books.google.de/books?id=tt4DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA242&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|Popular Mechanics]]//, 1935, p. 242. The article was ghost-written by Walter Gibsonsee J. Randolph Cox's bibliography of Gibson, //[[http://askalexander.org/display/21621/Man+of+Magic+and+Mystery+A+Guide+to+the+Work+of+Walter+B+Gibson/145|Man of Magic and Mystery]]//, 1988, p. 111 (where the article is listed but misdated as 1930). In //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13140/Greater+Magic/858|Greater Magic]]//, 1938, p. 830, the trick was credited to William H. McCaffrey.+It later found its way into books, for example Will Goldston's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18563/Great+Tricks+Revealed/45|Great Tricks Revealed]]//, 1935, p. 31. In the same year it was also included in an article on impromptu magic by Harry Blackstone in //[[http://books.google.de/books?id=tt4DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA242&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|Popular Mechanics]]//, 1935, p. 242. The article was ghost-written by Walter Gibsonsee J. Randolph Cox's bibliography of Gibson, //[[http://askalexander.org/display/21621/Man+of+Magic+and+Mystery+A+Guide+to+the+Work+of+Walter+B+Gibson/145|Man of Magic and Mystery]]//, 1988, p. 111 (where the article is listed but misdated as 1930). In //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13140/Greater+Magic/858|Greater Magic]]//, 1938, p. 830, the trick was credited to William H. McCaffrey.
  
 Corvello from Holland published "Improved Jumping Match" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/16330/The+Gen+Vol+09+No+03/7|The Gen]]//, Vol. 9 No. 3, July 1953, p. 71, in which the flick is hidden even more due to a slight preparation of one match. Corvello from Holland published "Improved Jumping Match" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/16330/The+Gen+Vol+09+No+03/7|The Gen]]//, Vol. 9 No. 3, July 1953, p. 71, in which the flick is hidden even more due to a slight preparation of one match.
  
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