Modern magic lanterns; a guide to the management of the optical lantern (1900)

Record Details:

Title:
Modern magic lanterns; a guide to the management of the optical lantern
Date:
1900
Publisher:
London, Gill, New York, Scribner's
Volume:
Modern magic lanterns; a guide to the management of the optical lantern
Leaf #:
00018
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Cornell University Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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Modern Magic Lanterns. CHAPTER I. 3ntrobuctor^. The Optical or Magic Lantern, which has in the last few years come so very largely into use, not only for the purposes of education and amusement, but also for adver- tising, for photographic enlarging, and has even been Fig. 1. Magic Lantern and Screen. pressed into the services of religion at more than one London church, may be diagrammatically represented by Fig. 1. This sketch represents the lantern reduced to its simplest expression, and before proceeding to describe in detail the many modifications of and additions to the instrument which ingenuity during the past few years has