The Optical Magic Lantern Journal (June 1889)

THE OPTICAL MAGIC LANTERN ——— JOURNAL —— PHOTOGRAPHIC ENLARGER. Vol. 1.—No. 1. [uimen Zu. JUNE 15, 1889. Price One Penny. CONTENTS. To Our READERS yon Mr a si THE MAcıc LANTERN: Its CONSTRUCTION, ILLUMINATION, OPTICS, AND USES.—CHAP. 1. sa 2 VARIOUS NAMES BY WHICH THE LANTERN IS Known PS si ad ia 2a ir DIAGRAM SLIDES WITHOUT THE AID OF PHOTOGRAPHY er ir zes ce de ss THE SMELL OF OIL In THE LANTERN % ENLARGING ON PERMANENT BRoMIDE PAPER TRANSPARENCIES ON GELATINE PLATES PROJECTION er dis MOONLIGHT EFFECT TITLES on PHOTOGRAPHS E vor Yal EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE LANTERN ... i=5 THE MaGIc LANTERN IN PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIOS EXPLOSION OF A GAS CYLINDER BpR sus daR PROJECTED PICTURES re Be APPLICATION3 FOR PATENTS GENERAL WANTS AND SALES ... EXCHANGE CoLUMN NOTES AND QUERIES SELECTIONS [> VRRRORDONNSNITNNOARD Notices. TRE Optical Magic Lantern Journal and Pholographic Enlarger is issued on the ısth of every month, price One Penny, and may be obtained from all Newsvendors, Railway News Stalls, Photographic Dealers, or from the Publishers, at the following rates, post free :— Continental. United States. 12 months ... 1/6 ... 2/ 60 cents. 6 Te 30 Single copies... [I 12.20. 6 i Advertisements (Scale of Charges), displayed :— Front page... a 2% us3 sie Back ,. or facing matter (whole)... 3) ” » 2) (half) 20m ss „ (quarter)... Ordinary page _... .. (whole) ... 5 r ie «. (halN) u Br Rn (quarter)... 5 vs per I inch in column ... Special quotations for a series. „u ndwen sononooor o0o00onooom Exchange Column, General Wants and Sales, &c.— 20 words, 6d.; and for every 3 additional words, 1d. ; Advertisements must reach the office not later than the! 12th of each month. All cheques and postal orders to be! made payable to Taylor Brothers. ! Editorial communications must be addressed, The Editor; advertisements and business communications to Taylor ; Brothers, care of the Publishers, Dorset Works, Salisbury j Square, Fleet Street, London, E.C. h TO OUR READERS. HIS journal is intended to fill a void in our serial literature devoted to popular science. The magic or optical lantern, so long a : mere toy, has, during late years, and since the application of photography to the preparation of the slides, gradually been assuming a higher phase; until at last it has become one of the best recognised agencies in education, and an instructive instrument in applied science. The lantern has hitherto not had in this country any serial organ devoted exclusively to it, and it is to supply this vacancy in our literature that this journal is devoted. It will be our aim to keep our readers ax courant with all that transpires in the world of lanternists, and supply useful practical information regarding every one of its numerous phases and applications, its mechanics, its optics, and its illumination. The art of preparing and colouring slides of every class will be fully treated, the operations of exhibitors amply recorded ; while all that is new in the form of inventions, patented and unpatented, will find a place in its columns. Added to this, it will be the endeavour of the Editor to present with frequency those numerous experiments which are capable of being shown by the lantern in the domestic circle for the amusement and instruction of the spectators. The now popular application of the lantern to the production of photographic enlargements will be treated with fulness and care, and the various means adopted by our best workers in this department will be practically indicated and . described. Readers are respectfully requested to keep us apprised of any matters transpiring in their own experience or among the circles of their acquaintance of a nature calculated to prove of interest to the general body of our readers. EDITOR.