Inventions
In 1974, Van Buren invented and built an advancement on his friend Robert Harbin's Experiment 13 illusion. This involved 13 wooden rods passing through an assistant. Van Buren took it a step further, replacing the wooden rods with a bank of fluorescent light tubes. This Van Buren performed on one of his many appearances on the David Nixon TV shows.
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“Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.”
—Kenneth MacKenzie Clark, Baron of Saltwood (1903–1983)
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