https://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Afghan_Bands&feed=atom&action=historyAfghan Bands - Revision history2024-03-29T06:20:12ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.25.5https://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Afghan_Bands&diff=82818&oldid=prevPprevos: Additional background information2018-02-22T07:58:42Z<p>Additional background information</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</del>Afghan Bands''' <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">or </del>'''<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Perplexing Mystery of the Moebius </del>Bands'''<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </del>is a self-working <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">topological </del>magic effect where long loops of paper are cut lengthwise to produce two separate <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">loops </del>as expected,  then as two interlocked loops, and finally as a single double-length loop.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[File:Rickards_Afghan_Bands.png|300px|thumb|right|Rickard’s </ins>Afghan Bands <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(Source: </ins>''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Linking Ring</ins>''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, February 1943).]]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The </ins>''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'Afghan </ins>Bands''' is a self-working magic effect where long loops of paper are cut lengthwise to produce two separate <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bands, </ins>as expected,  then as two interlocked loops, and finally as a single double-length loop.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">It </del>is based on the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">mathematical </del>Möbius Strip which was discovered independently by the German mathematicians August Ferdinand Möbius and Johann Benedict Listing in 1858.<ref><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">http</del>:<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">//en</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wikipedia</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip</del></ref> It became a popular magic trick in the late 1800s after being published in Popular Scientific Recreations by Gaston Tissandier, which was the English translation of his Les récréations <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">scientifiques </del>(1881).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The method of the trick </ins>is based on the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">topological principle of the  </ins>Möbius Strip which was discovered independently by the German mathematicians August Ferdinand Möbius and Johann Benedict Listing in 1858.<ref><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Pickover, C. A. (2006). ''The Möbius Strip</ins>: <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Dr</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">August Möbius’s Marvelous Band in Mathematics, Games, Literature, Art, Technology, and Cosmology''</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Perhaps the </del>first professional <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">magic act </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">include </del>the effect was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">by </del>[[Felicien Trewey]] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">who was performing it by </del>the late 1800s. [[Ellis Stanyon]] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">was marketing </del>a commercial version <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">by 1900 </del>as "Mystic Afgan [sic] Bands" <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </del>in Britain. In the 1920s [[James C. Wobensmith]] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">came up with </del>the now standard twists and marketed it as "The Red Muslin Bands." <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">He also substituted muslin cloth which made the effect faster because they could be hand torn rather than slowly cut with scissors. In 1977 [[Ed Eckl]] marketed as "Möby-Zip" which used zippered cloth</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The trick was initially only an entertaining science experiment. The </ins>first professional <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">magician </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">perform </ins>the effect was [[Felicien Trewey]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in </ins>the late 1800s<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. [[Percy Selbit]] was the first to describe the Möbius strip as a method for a magic trick in the English language in 1901, coining the name Afghan Bands</ins>. [[Ellis Stanyon]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">marketed </ins>a commercial version as "Mystic Afgan [sic] Bands" in Britain. In the 1920s [[James C. Wobensmith]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">popularised </ins>the now standard twists and marketed it as "The Red Muslin Bands." <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">His popular method was based on earlier work by Paul Debur and James Nelson</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Magicians known to have performed </del>the Afghan Bands <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">have been </del>[[Blackstone]] and [[T. Nelson Downs]].   </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Wobensmith used muslin cloth instead of which made </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">effect faster because they could be hand torn rather than slowly cut with scissors. In 1977 [[Ed Eckl]] marketed as "Möby-Zip" which used zippered cloth as reusable </ins>Afghan Bands<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Afghan Bands were a popular magic trick in the first half of the twentieth century. Magicians, such as </ins>[[Blackstone]] and [[T. Nelson Downs]]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, regularly performed the Afghan Bands</ins>.  <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The trick was the subject of regular accusations of plagiarism for both methods and presentations. In the second half of the twentieth century, the trick lost its appeal disappeared from the repertoire of professional magicians.<ref>Peter Prevos (2018), [https://magicperspectives.net/afghan-bands/ The Möbius Strip in Magic: A Treatise on the Afghan Bands]. Kangaroo Flat: Third Hemisphere.</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Pprevoshttps://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Afghan_Bands&diff=80575&oldid=prevJpecore at 21:05, 23 May 20162016-05-23T21:05:51Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It is based on the mathematical Möbius Strip which was discovered independently by the German mathematicians August Ferdinand Möbius and Johann Benedict Listing in 1858.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip</ref> It became a popular magic trick in the late 1800s after being published in Popular Scientific Recreations by Gaston Tissandier, which was the English translation of his Les récréations scientifiques (1881).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It is based on the mathematical Möbius Strip which was discovered independently by the German mathematicians August Ferdinand Möbius and Johann Benedict Listing in 1858.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip</ref> It became a popular magic trick in the late 1800s after being published in Popular Scientific Recreations by Gaston Tissandier, which was the English translation of his Les récréations scientifiques (1881).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Perhaps the first professional magic act to include the effect was by [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Félicien </del>Trewey]] who was performing it by the late 1800s. [[Ellis Stanyon]] was marketing a commercial version by 1900 as "Mystic Afgan [sic] Bands"  in Britain. In the 1920s [[James C. Wobensmith]] came up with the now standard twists and marketed it as "The Red Muslin Bands." He also substituted muslin cloth which made the effect faster because they could be hand torn rather than slowly cut with scissors. In 1977 [[Ed Eckl]] marketed as "Möby-Zip" which used zippered cloth.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Perhaps the first professional magic act to include the effect was by [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Felicien </ins>Trewey]] who was performing it by the late 1800s. [[Ellis Stanyon]] was marketing a commercial version by 1900 as "Mystic Afgan [sic] Bands"  in Britain. In the 1920s [[James C. Wobensmith]] came up with the now standard twists and marketed it as "The Red Muslin Bands." He also substituted muslin cloth which made the effect faster because they could be hand torn rather than slowly cut with scissors. In 1977 [[Ed Eckl]] marketed as "Möby-Zip" which used zippered cloth.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Jpecorehttps://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Afghan_Bands&diff=53841&oldid=prevJpecore: Created page with "'''Afghan Bands''' or '''The Perplexing Mystery of the Moebius Bands''', is a self-working topological magic effect where long loops of paper are cut lengthwise to produce two..."2012-03-24T18:36:14Z<p>Created page with "'''Afghan Bands''' or '''The Perplexing Mystery of the Moebius Bands''', is a self-working topological magic effect where long loops of paper are cut lengthwise to produce two..."</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Afghan Bands''' or '''The Perplexing Mystery of the Moebius Bands''', is a self-working topological magic effect where long loops of paper are cut lengthwise to produce two separate loops as expected, then as two interlocked loops, and finally as a single double-length loop.<br />
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It is based on the mathematical Möbius Strip which was discovered independently by the German mathematicians August Ferdinand Möbius and Johann Benedict Listing in 1858.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip</ref> It became a popular magic trick in the late 1800s after being published in Popular Scientific Recreations by Gaston Tissandier, which was the English translation of his Les récréations scientifiques (1881).<br />
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Perhaps the first professional magic act to include the effect was by [[Félicien Trewey]] who was performing it by the late 1800s. [[Ellis Stanyon]] was marketing a commercial version by 1900 as "Mystic Afgan [sic] Bands" in Britain. In the 1920s [[James C. Wobensmith]] came up with the now standard twists and marketed it as "The Red Muslin Bands." He also substituted muslin cloth which made the effect faster because they could be hand torn rather than slowly cut with scissors. In 1977 [[Ed Eckl]] marketed as "Möby-Zip" which used zippered cloth.<br />
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Magicians known to have performed the Afghan Bands have been [[Blackstone]] and [[T. Nelson Downs]]. <br />
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