Conjuring Credits

The Origins of Wonder

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paper:svengali_force_pad [2019/02/02 20:48] – created stephenminchpaper:svengali_force_pad [2019/04/22 17:31] – Added Lambie citation found by Maven. Took out Richard Mark citation. stephenminch
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-The long-and-short-page principle used in the [[paper:blow_book|Blow Book]] and adapted to playing cards was applied in the last half of the twentieth century to a variety of paper pads gimmicked to force a word, number or image. U. F. Grant may have been the first to do this, using a number of loose pages fastened together at one end by a clip; see "Tale of Fifteen Cities" in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/21901/Grant+s+Fabulous+Feats+of+Mental+Magic/15|Grant's Fabulous Feats of Mental Magic]]// by Don Tanner, 1965, p. 15.+The long-and-short-page principle used in the [[paper:blow_book|Blow Book]] and adapted to playing cards was applied at least as early as 1941 to paper pads gimmicked to force a word, number or image. Allen Lambie was the earliest so far discovered to have done this, in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/23304/Tops/12|Tops]]//.
  
 Various special forcing pads relying on the long-short principle have since been devised by a number of magicians. In the early 1980s, the manufacture of specially gimmicked pads to force items began and has continued, with forcing pads being marketed by Ton Onosaka, Scott Creasey, Chris Jones, Brett Barry and others. Various special forcing pads relying on the long-short principle have since been devised by a number of magicians. In the early 1980s, the manufacture of specially gimmicked pads to force items began and has continued, with forcing pads being marketed by Ton Onosaka, Scott Creasey, Chris Jones, Brett Barry and others.