Complex sentence: In response, Harry Houdini proved that a glove was not even needed as he replicated the Kluski materialization moulds by using just his hand and a bowel of hot paraffin.
Split into simpler sentences: In response, Harry Houdini proved that a glove was not even needed to replicate the moulds. Houdini had replicated the Kluski materialization moulds by using just his hand and a bowel of hot paraffin.