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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 178 | THE CABALISTIC CLOCK purpose, he grasped the dial at the bottom, causing the number 6 instead of I2 to be on top. When the hand started to turn, of course it would have stopped at the Great WONDERS WONDERS! WONDERS! WON- DERS! and WONDERS! are new to be feen in a ve y warm Room, at No. 22, Piccadilly, This and every day this week, from eleven in the mor ing ill four in the after- noon, and precifely at feven clock, every cvening this week, M R. KATTERFELTO will fhow a variery of new furpriling Experiments in Natural and Expe- rimental Philofopby and Math.matics, and his whole regular Courfe of Philofophical L Qures are deliver-d in Twelve différent times, a different Lecture and Experiment every day, and every evening at 7 o'clock. His various Experi. ments are asfollow, vlz. PHILOSOPHICAL, PNEUMATIC, MATHEMATICAL, HYDRAULIC, OPTICAL, HYDROSTATIC, MAGNETICAL, PROETIC, ELECTRICAL, STENOGRAPHIC. PHYSICAL, BLENCICAL, CHYMICAL, CAPRIMANTIC ART. By his new-improved SOLAR MICROSCOPE, Will be feen many furprining infects in different wate:s, beer, miik, vinegar, and blood; and other curioas objeits. Mr. K A T T E R F E L Her, in Nis travels years par, int? the isc- nour to shibit with great applanse beforc the Emprofs of Ruffia, the Queen of Hangary, the King of Pruflia, Den- mark, Sweden, and Polland, and before many other Princes. And af.er his Lecture, Mr. Katterfelto will fhow ard dif- cover feveral NEW DECEPTIONS, on DICE, CARDS, SILVER and GOLD, BILLIARDS, TENNIS, BOXES, MEDALS, LETTERS, MONEY, PYRAMIDICAL GLASES WATCHES; CASKETS, MECHANICAL CLOCKS Admittance, front feats 3s. fecond feats 23. back frats 19. for fervants only. Newspaper clipping of 1782, showing that Katterfelto used the cabalistic clock. From the Harry Houdini Collection. wrong number. I managed to escape humiliation by pretending I was afraid he would break the clock by letting it fall, so took it away from him, holding it myself. II [ 161 |