The best choice is answer D) Lines 45-47 ("It was...clockworks") The writer explains how each magician amazed large groups of audiences, not with magic but with clockwork. Magicians began as clockwork makers creating automata with parts and used it to astonish their guests.
what i can conclude from the passage is that the narrator is trying to show the readers audience think that its all in magic but in reality its clockwork they are using to perform
