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    Étienne-Gaspard Robert (15 June 1763 – 2 July 1837), often known by the stage name of "Robertson", was a prominent physicist, stage magician and influential...
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  • Robertson, a Scottish clan Robertson, stage name of Belgian magician Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1763–1837) Division of Robertson, electoral district in the Australian...
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    declaration of war between France and Great Britain, physicist Étienne-Gaspard Robert met with the French government and proposed the use of mirrors to...
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  • (Randall James Hamilton Zwinge) Reveen, Peter Reynolds, Charles Robert, Étienne-Gaspard Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugène Robinson, William Ellsworth: see Chung Ling...
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    Lyceum Theatre in the Strand, where it became a smash hit. Étienne-Gaspard "Robertson" Robert, a Belgian inventor and physicist from Liège, became the best...
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    and projection on mirrors and smoke, which had been perfected by Étienne-Gaspard Robert/Robertson in Paris early in the century. The new illusion, soon...
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    and Sylvain Mignon, when it became the Quartier de l'Europe [fr]. Étienne-Gaspard Robert opened the third Tivoli in 1826, which survived until 1842 when...
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  • Rillieux – American engineer, invented the multiple-effect evaporator Étienne-Gaspard Robert – Belgian magician who performed under the stage name of Robertson...
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    Philadelphia (Jacob Meyer) Franz Polgar Fay Presto Dominic Reyes Étienne-Gaspard Robert Brian Role David Roth Jerry Sadowitz Jay Sankey Ian Saville John...
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    inspired by the balloon flights of fellow physicist and stage magician Étienne-Gaspard Robert. Ørsted, H. C. (1836). Luftskibet, et Digt [The Airship, a Poem]...
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    Monnaies and was used to print Assignats. Physicist and stage magician Étienne-Gaspard Robert presented fantasized shows in the old church using a magic lantern...
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  • Society Eta meson Eta prime meson Eternal inflation Etheric force Étienne-Gaspard Robert Étienne-Louis Malus Ettingshausen effect Ettore Majorana Etymology of...
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  • Karl-Heinrich Riewe – Germany Walther Ritz – Switzerland (1878–1909) Étienne-Gaspard Robert – Belgium (1763–1837) Heinrich Rohrer – Switzerland (1933–2013)...
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    shape the Gothic horror genre. Fantasmagoriana takes its name from Étienne-Gaspard Robert's Fantasmagorie, a phantasmagoria show (French: fantasmagoria, from...
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    Joseph Proust in a Montgolfier. 1803-07-18: 7.28 km (23,900 ft); Étienne-Gaspard Robert and Auguste Lhoëst in a balloon. 1839: 7.9 km (26,000 ft); Charles...
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    1800 in Paris. She was the niece of stage magician and aeronaut Étienne-Gaspard Robert and toured with him and his son Eugene as an assistant. She ascended...
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    including the celebrated continental ascent, undertaken at the expense of Robert Hollond, M.P. for Hastings, who, with Monck Mason, accompanied him. They...
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    Étienne-Gaspard Robert offered phantasmagorias projecting skeletons and ghosts. A 1831 engraving of a 1797 show in Paris....
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    after reading the 1831 book Recreative Memoirs by famed showman Étienne-Gaspard Robert. Pepper's demonstrations of "the ghost effect" were received with...
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    after reading the 1831 book Recreative Memoirs by famed showman Étienne-Gaspard Robert even after Dircks signed over all financial rights. Dirck's published...
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    Balloons were very popular at the time, with balloonists such as Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Jean Margat, and Sophie Blanchard, who died in 1819 during one...
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    great success. One of many showmen who were inspired by Phylidor, Etienne-Gaspard Robert became very famous with his own Fantasmagorie show in Paris from...
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    December 1800 - January 1801 / May 1801. Geneva (Léman), 1801. Étienne-Gaspard Robert Johann Georg Schröpfer Biester, Johann-Erich (1789). Erzählung einer...
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  • French airline La Minerve, a giant ascension balloon envisioned by Étienne-Gaspard Robert in 1820 Minerva (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists...
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    translated from was Fantasmagoriana (its title is derived from Étienne-Gaspard Robert's Phantasmagoria), which had in turn been translated anonymously...
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  • Eugene Robertson was the son of the Belgian magician and balloonist Étienne-Gaspard Robert. Cf. X. Theodore Barber. Phantasmagorical Wonders: The Magic Lantern...
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    in part by the phantasmagoria productions of the French magician Étienne-Gaspard Robert, known by the stage name "Robertson". Méliès himself plays the Devil...
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  • de brigade) Gaspard François Forestier (général de brigade) Gaspard Hilarion Fornier d'Albe (général de brigade) Jacques Marguerite Étienne de Fornier...
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    Tony Brown Charlie Chaplin Michel Courtemanche Adam Darius Jean-Gaspard Deburau Étienne Decroux Ryan Drummond Jogesh Dutta Ladislav Fialka Dario Fo George...
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    Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière (August 31, 1748 – January 1, 1822), 2nd Marquis de Lotbinière, though to keep political favour with...
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