(9Now)Īfter visiting a Houdini museum in California that contained an almost exact replica, the men were finally able to build the chamber for themselves, making it 15 centimetres taller so that magician Terbosic would be able to fit inside of it, being significantly taller than Houdini himself. The replica water torture chamber was smaller than most of the expected. In 2004, the restored cell was sold at auction to magician David Copperfield. Luckily, the metal frame survived and the cell was restored by illusion builder John Gaughan.

The cell remained in the Radner basement until 1971 when it was put on display at The Houdini Magical Hall of Fame, which sadly later burned to the ground. RELATED: Neil Patrick Harris asks the Tanked team to recreate Houdini's Water Torture Cell

Despite Houdini's instructions for it to be 'burned and destroyed' upon Hardeen's death, his brother gave the cell to Houdini collector Sidney Hollis Radner in the 1940s. No true measurements for the chamber itself exist, and the men had no access to Houdini's original prop.Īfter Houdini's death, the chamber was willed to his brother Theodore Hardeen (George's uncle). To understand just how he achieved the illusion, Hardeen, Terbosic and Wolf set about making their own water torture chamber, though this was not going to be a simple task. The team working to understand Houdini's illusions on Houdini's Last Secrets. But of course, at the end of the two minutes, the magician would emerge miraculously from behind the curtain, dripping wet and panting, to the audience's amazement. The illusion itself consists of three parts, as we are told in Houdini's Last Secrets: first, the magician's feet are locked in stocks that bind his legs together in heavy wood and a solid steel lock next, he is suspended in mid-air from his ankles with a restraint brace finally, he is lowered into a glass tank overflowing with water, and the chamber door is locked with steel locks to the top of the chamber.Īfter that, the chamber was then wheeled behind a screen, and an accompanying orchestra would play eerie music for two entire minutes while the audience waited for Houdini to drown. All I can tell you is I think you saw how hard we worked.Houdini was famed for being able to escape any kind of binding. It would be nice to have it every day – I can’t say we will. It was nice today to have the Waterford supporters behind us chanting. It doesn’t feel nice because we are working so hard, but we can’t dwell on that.

“If people want to give out about Davy Fitz or the Waterford thing, let them off. “You will have people wanting to say stuff,” said Fitzgerald. After a deadbeat league and mounting local apathy led to concerns that the home crowd would be outnumbered in Walsh Park, everything about this performance felt restorative. Inspired by a resurgent Jamie Barron, who scored 1-3, and a returning Calum Lyons, who plundered three points from wing back, Waterford produced their best performance in nearly a year. Waterford’s Jamie Barron scoring past Cork’s Patrick Colins in the Munster championship at Walsh Park, Co Waterford. Otherwise Waterford dictated everything that mattered and won by a goal. The visitors led for less than 30 seconds and the teams were level just once in the game, early in the second half. Cork were odds-on favourites with the bookies to win in Walsh Park on Sunday, but Waterford were 1-4 to 0-1 in front after 11 minutes and Cork spent the rest of the match running around with their tongues hanging out. For it to be our strongest quarter today is just fantastic for us to take out of the game.”Ĭlare must pick themselves up quickly for a trip to Cork next Sunday, where the home team will also have bandaged wounds. And our last quarter in the league this season was our poorest quarter. It was absolutely pivotal in that last quarter. “I’m just really delighted with the impact of our boys off the bench. I think the players felt that as well, and they grabbed it. “We got the goal and at that point then you could say, ‘listen, there’s a chance here’. Then we strung off three points in a row in a row and the whole thing just shifted. We just weren’t creating that bit of momentum by getting a couple of scores in a row. But what I was also taking note of was the fact that Clare weren’t pulling away from us and we were still creating scoring chances. “Listen, at that point you’d have to say that the momentum wasn’t with us. Clare’s Mark Rodgers and Cian Lynch of Limerick in Cusack Park.

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