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John Nevil Maskelyne (22 December 1839 – 18 May 1917) was an English stage magician and inventor of the pay toilet, along with other Victorian-era devices. He worked with magicians George Alfred Cooke and David Devant, and many of his illusions are still performed today.
May 14, 2024 · John Nevil Maskelyne was a British magician whose inventions and patronage of new performers greatly influenced the development of the art of producing illusions by sleight of hand. Trained as a watchmaker, Maskelyne became famous in 1865 when he, aided by George A. Cooke, exposed the Davenport.
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Dec 1, 2015 · His first paper on astronomy was “A proposal for discovering the annual parallax of Sirius”, published in 1760. He followed this with observations of the transit of Venus in 1761, the tides at Saint Helena (1762), and various astronomical phenomena at Saint Helena and Barbados (1764).
- Paul Edwards
- 2015
Those who have heard of the 18th-century astronomer Nevil Maskelyne are likely to have come across him as the nemesis of the clock-maker, John Harrison. This is despite the fact that he was...
Famous British stage magician who was a strong opponent of fraudulent Spiritualism. Born at Cheltenham, Gloucester-shire, December 22, 1839, he was the son of a saddlemaker. As a boy he was fascinated by an entertainer who demonstrated spinning plates and practiced this feat himself.
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John Nevil Maskelyne, known professionally as Nevil Maskelyne (1863–1924), was a British magician and inventor.
John Nevil Maskelyne. British magician and illusionist. Born in Cheltenham on 22 December 1839, he was a descendant of Nevil Maskelyne (1732-1811), the Astronomer Royal.
