When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly ...

Escape artist Harry Houdini shows his handcuffs as he stands in a wooden box on a boat and prepares to be dumped into East River in New York City on July 7, 1912. During this stunt circa 1912 ...

To his audiences, Harry Houdini’s skills seemed almost supernatural. But to Houdini himself, an immigrant who embraced showmanship to escape grinding poverty, his abilities were built entirely ...

Erik Weisz, better known professionally as the great escapologist, illusionist and stunt performer Harry Houdini ... up in handcuffs, out of which he would of course swiftly escape.

Glory is worried that she has heard nothing from her mother for some weeks – but distraction comes when the Hungarian-American escape artist Harry ... Houdini with a pair of unopenable handcuffs ...