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misc:sponge_balls [2015/09/21 23:01] – General formatting and a couple of typo corrections. tylerwilson | misc:sponge_balls [2019/11/24 19:13] (current) – Added Tenyo and Goshman information received from Max Maven. stephenminch | ||
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+ | Until the 1970s, the sponge used for such routines was natural sea sponge and various synthetic sponge materials. All these were quite dense and heavy, and did not compress very well. That changed when Tenyo came out with a much, much softer material that compressed extremely well. Albert Goshman jumped in at that point to manufacture items using this new synthetic sponge in the U.S. Today virtually all sponge products for magicians are made of that lighter-composition material. | ||
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