You're absolutely right to question the word "Torture" — while it's historically accurate in the context of Houdini’s Water ...

The Water Torture Cell was practiced from 1912 to 1926 and the only known recordings of Houdini’s voice are said to have been recorded in Flatbush, Brooklyn, as introductory speeches for the stunt.

She's Lady Houdini, an escape artist who has successfully performed thousands of public feats and has broken Harry Houdini's record for most water escapes ever.

Across the upper section in yellow, red and black, the words "The Sensational Houdini Water Torture Escape" appear in a curvilinear banner on a green field. In the center, the figure of Doug Henning ...

Escape Secrets Handcuff Escapes 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.

The Water Torture Cell, which Houdini first used in 1912, was an apparatus of which the famed escape artist was particularly proud. In this illusion, the shackled Houdini was lowered upside down ...

Harry Houdini escaped death time and time again, only to die of peritonitis and a ruptured appendix at 52 in 1926. But he lives again in a two-night, four-hour biopic on the History Channel ...

Houdini originally made his bones doing card tricks and garden variety magic acts, but was most famous for his ability to escape just about anything, including handcuffs, water torture cells ...

During his life, legendary escape artist and magician Harry Houdini shocked crowds with his stunts and illusions. Houdini, born Erik Weisz in Budapest, Hungary on March 24, 1874, moved to the U.S. … ...

She's Lady Houdini, an escape artist who has successfully performed thousands of public feats and has broken Harry Houdini's record for most water escapes ever.