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🗓️ 6 March 2023
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0:00.0 | There were murmurs in nervous whispers in the audience at Columbia University that day |
0:12.5 | in 1881. |
0:15.0 | Anticipation filled the air as the audience waited excitedly for the show with it was about |
0:19.3 | to happen. |
0:21.4 | The room was packed as the man they'd all come to see stepped up on stage and began to |
0:24.8 | perform his magic show. |
0:26.9 | No, you wasn't a stage magician, not like you're thinking. |
0:31.9 | There was no pulling a rabbit out of a hat or a song a woman in half. |
0:35.9 | No silly card tricks or sleight of hand. |
0:39.5 | But to be sure what this man was here to do was demonstrate magic, real magic, the kind |
0:45.0 | of magic that would change the world. |
0:48.5 | His audience that day were mostly students of electrical engineering, but they might |
0:52.1 | as well have been a wrapped audience of six year olds at a birthday party. |
0:55.7 | For how excited they were to see the magician, after all his reputation proceeded him. |
1:02.1 | Everyone knew how brilliant the magician was, and they all knew that they were in for |
1:06.3 | one heck of a show. |
1:09.4 | Allow me to set the stage for you. |
1:12.1 | The magician stood before them looking handsome and devinear in a nice suit, with his intense |
1:16.6 | dark eyes and perfectly combed hair and mustache. |
1:20.8 | To either side of him hung two large sheets of zinc dangling from wires about 15 feet |
1:25.0 | apart. |
1:27.0 | You could trace those wires all the way back to a dynamo, and for those weren't familiar |
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