Defying Gravity

23 entries in Egg / Defying Gravity

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Unknown	How to make two or three egs dance upon a staffe	eggs balanced on stick		1634	The Art of Legerdemain Discovered	38	Egg / Defying Gravity
Unknown	To Balance an Egg on a Table	unbroken egg	Also published here The Egg of Christopher Columbus (or the Self-balancing Egg) - First Method: A Tale of Hoffmann (Unknown, 2002)	1890	More Magic	325	Egg / Defying Gravity
Unknown	To Balance an Egg on the End of a Straw		Also published here Egg Balanced on End of Straw (Unknown, 2002)	1890	More Magic	325	Egg / Defying Gravity
Unknown	Karten- und Ei-Balance	egg and upright card balanced on wand, card with needle inside	Related to Card and Egg Balance (Unknown, 1897)	1896	Der moderne Kartenkünstler	189	Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Defying Gravity Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Egg / Defying Gravity
Unknown	Card and Egg Balance	impossible balancing stunt with card and egg on wand	Related to Karten- und Ei-Balance (Unknown, 1896)	1897	New Era Card Tricks	198	Wand & Stick / Animation of Other object(s) Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Defying Gravity Egg / Defying Gravity
Unknown	Das Ei des Columbus	egg balanced upright, then card balanced upright on egg and coin on that, all on wand	Related to Magische Potpourri (Eduard Hensel, 1897)	Sep. 1897	Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 3 No. 3)	38	Coin / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Defying Gravity Egg / Defying Gravity
Unknown	An Egg and Bottle Trick	non-magical science experiment	Also published here Egg Balanced on the Rim of a Bottle (Unknown, 2002)	1902	The Modern Conjurer	297	Bottle / Miscellaneous Scientific Amusement Egg / Defying Gravity
Unknown	The Self-Balancing Egg	egg with weight or sand inside	Also published here The Egg of Christopher Columbus (or the Self-balancing Egg) - Third Method: Hoffmann Again (Unknown, 2002)	1903	Later Magic	391	Egg / Animation Egg / Defying Gravity
Unknown	To Balance an Egg on the Table	several methods		1909	The Art of Magic	294	Egg / Defying Gravity
Friedrich "Fritz" Hügli	Das Ei des Zauberers	egg balanced on straw, then paper ribbon is produced from egg and a cane as climax		1927	Leichte Zauberei	76	Silk & Handkerchief / Ribbon / Production & Appearance Cane / Appearance & Production Egg / Defying Gravity
R. J. Cooper	Balancing an Egg on a Plate			Mar. 1945	Hugard's Magic Monthly — Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 2 No. 10)	109	Plate Egg / Defying Gravity
Unknown	The Egg of Christopher Columbus (or the Self-balancing Egg) - First Method: A Tale of Hoffmann	unbroken egg	Also published here To Balance an Egg on a Table (Unknown, 1890)	2002	The Encyclopedia of Egg Magic	93	Egg / Defying Gravity
Val Andrews, Howard Thurston	The Egg of Christopher Columbus (or the Self-balancing Egg) - Second Method: Andrews and Thurston	ring under cloth	Also published here Egg Bags and Egg Gags, p. 14 Howard Thurston, 400 Tricks You Can Do, 1940, p. 103	2002	The Encyclopedia of Egg Magic	93	Egg / Defying Gravity
Unknown	The Egg of Christopher Columbus (or the Self-balancing Egg) - Third Method: Hoffmann Again	egg with weight or sand inside	Also published here The Self-Balancing Egg (Unknown, 1903)	2002	The Encyclopedia of Egg Magic	94	Egg / Defying Gravity
Unknown	The Egg of Christopher Columbus (or the Self-balancing Egg) - Fourth Method: With Salt			2002	The Encyclopedia of Egg Magic	94	Egg / Defying Gravity
Unknown	Egg Balanced on End of Straw		Related to Will Goldston, Tricks and Illusions, 1908, p. 102 Also published here To Balance an Egg on the End of a Straw (Unknown, 1890)	2002	The Encyclopedia of Egg Magic	94	Egg / Defying Gravity
Unknown	Egg, Card, and Wand	egg balanced on card balanced on wand	Also published here Will Goldston, Tricks and Illusions, 1908, p. 102	2002	The Encyclopedia of Egg Magic	95	Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Defying Gravity Egg / Defying Gravity
Arthur "Dr. Rubini" Dicken	The Magnetic Eggsacta Wand	several egg balanced on wand, magnetic	Also published here The Linking Ring, Vol. 41 No. 10, Dec. 1961, p. 63	2002	The Encyclopedia of Egg Magic	95	Magnet / As Hidden Method / Miscellanous Egg / Defying Gravity
August Roterberg	Stacking the Eggs	several eggs balance on top of each other On the Hand On the Wand	Also published here Latter Day Tricks, 1896, p. 45	2002	The Encyclopedia of Egg Magic	96	Wand & Stick / Gaffed Egg / Defying Gravity
Unknown	Egg on Cane		Related to Egg on Cane (Unknown, 2002) Also published here J. Prevost, Clever and Pleasant Inventions, 1584	2002	The Encyclopedia of Egg Magic	97	Egg / Defying Gravity
Unknown	Egg Balanced on the Rim of a Bottle	non-magical science experiment	Also published here An Egg and Bottle Trick (Unknown, 1902)	2002	The Encyclopedia of Egg Magic	97	Bottle / Miscellaneous Scientific Amusement Egg / Defying Gravity
Bill Taylor	Hard as a Rock	egg balanced upright on glass, after comedy vanish sequence egg is shown real, then content poured in newspaper where it vanishes	Also published here Genii, Vol. 28 No. 12, Aug. 1964, p. 454	2002	The Encyclopedia of Egg Magic	98	Egg / Miscellaneous Newspaper / Liquid in Newspaper Egg / Vanish / Props Egg / Defying Gravity
Unknown	The Acrobatic Egg	egg rolls on stretched ribbon	Also published here Eggstraordinary Ways of Eggshibiting with Eggs, p. 15	2002	The Encyclopedia of Egg Magic	185	Egg / Animation Egg / Defying Gravity