Five names readily come to mind: escape artist Harry Houdini ... before picking up the "Houdini" stage name in 1890 after reading the autobiography of French magician Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin.

Magician John Henry Anderson died in 1874, the same year Harry Houdini was born - yet despite the two never meeting, Anderson ...

When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly ...

On March 18, 1910, Harry Houdini made three flights in his Voisin, the third lasting about three and a half minutes. NASM 2001-14087 He wasn’t the first magician to attempt flight. As early as ...

Library of Congress Jack London and Harry Houdini were two of the most remarkable Americans of the early twentieth century. That they quickly became friends when they met just before Thanksgiving ...

Erik Weisz, better known professionally as the great escapologist, illusionist and stunt performer Harry Houdini, had many links with Ireland. He first came to public attention in vaudeville in ...