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======Paper-clip Switch====== | ======Paper-clip Switch====== | ||
- | This switch of a folded playing card, bill or slip of paper, accomplished while apparently removing the item from a paper clip or similar device, has a history of reinvention. Karl Fulves | + | This switch of a folded playing card, bill or slip of paper, accomplished while apparently removing the item from a paper clip or similar device, has a history of reinvention. Karl Fulves |
- | Alexander de Cova developed the same switch, using a clothes pin instead of a paper clip, in the 1980s. He recounts his memory of its development in his book //Ein Profi packt aus...//, 1992. | + | Alexander de Cova developed the same switch, using a clothes pin instead of a paper clip, c. 1985. He recounts his memory of its development in his book //Ein Profi packt aus...//, 1992, p. 111. He first published it in his lecture notes // |
- | Jay Sankey also reinvented the switch, which he included in //100% Sankey// by Richard Kaufman, 1990, p. 36, under the title of "# | + | Jay Sankey also reinvented the switch, which he included in // |
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