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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Famous quotes containing the word inventions:
“I shall not bring an automobile with me. These inventions infest France almost as much as Bloomer cycling costumes, but they make a horrid racket, and are particularly objectionable. So are the Bloomers. Nothing more abominable has ever been invented. Perhaps the automobile tricycles may succeed better, but I abjure all these works of the devil.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)