With A Large Number Of Interesting Experiments Relating To Alchemy And The Chemistry Of The Fifty Metallic Elements.

Chemist and illusionist John Henry Pepper (1821 1900) lectured at the Royal Polytechnic Institution in London, and incorporated experiments, illusions and magic lanterns into his popular science lectures. In 1862 he developed a stage-show illusion called 'the ghost'. This involved using strategically placed pieces of glass and specific lighting in order to create the illusion of ghostly figures on stage. The illusion was immensely popular in the second half of the nineteenth century it was visited by royalty, and Pepper's show toured to America, Canada and Australia. In this book, first...