from flickr
The magician so far as we might think of them originated from the mid 1800s. If I were to ask you to describe a wizard most likely you would say hat, tail coat, and a magic wand. Well this notion of a wizard was mainly contributed by no less evidence of Herrmann the Great, Alexander Herrmann (1844-1896). He was a French magician who traveled with her family billed as “The First Family of Magic”.
While Herrmann was the archetypal magician was not the first and magic owes much to the fine works of Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805-1871). Trained as a watchmaker Robert-Houdin used his talent for creating mechanical contraptions that moved in this fashion as to convince the audience also were alive. French also opened his own magic theater in the mid-1840s in central Paris. Here are its mechanical figures, like a robot that performs the cup and balls trick (see our website) and the birdsong. Its production was a famous number guess this could be both spit out and what was before the creation of none other than King Louis Philippe and was then sold to PT Barnum.
