The Optical Magic Lantern Journal (October 1890)

THE OPTICAL MAGIC LANTERN —— JOURNAL —— AND PHOTOGRAPHIC ENLARGER. EDITED BY J. HAY TAYLOR. Vol. 2.—No. 17. [statineers' tan. OCTOBER 1, 1890. Price One Penny. CONTENTS. PAGN. VAGE. Notes ... . ses OD The Lantern and Art Edu CALION eee ee ee ee SS 34! The Lantern Society.—A Hint 39 Signals for Changing Slides ... 39 | Washing Sitters’ Faces ... _... 40 | The Arc Light for Projection 41 Editorial Table... ... 0... 43 Dry Collodion Plates for Lantern ‘Transparencies . Hand Cameras for Obtaining Slides for the Lantern—No. 6 35 Photomicrographic = Lantern ‘Yransparencies Histo for logical Teaching and ReCorrespondence. — American EATEN cass! bic wees sep vex BO > Lanterns—The Lantern SociReminiscences of My First ety—Lantern Slide Cameras Lantem Show 2... 85 —South London PhotograLantern Slide and Lranspar: phic Society--Gloucestershire ency Making... 37 Photographic Exhibition 43-45 Music Halls and the Lantern 38 Metamorphosic Effect Slides 3S . Society Meetings .. 0 .. 43 Notes and Queries ... . 16 ConTENTS OF No. 16. Notices—Notes—Some Small American Lanterns—Hand Cameras for Obtaining Slides for the Lantern (No. 5)—Transparencies at One Operation—Lost Light—Camera Club (New Premises)—Photomicrozraphic Lantern Transparencies for Histolozical Teaching and Rescarch—A few Hints on Amateur (Comic) Slide Making— Editorial Table—Correspondence (New Oxy-calcium Ligat—Information)—Notes and Queries. Notices. THE Optical Magic Lantern Journal and Pholographic Enlarger is issued on the tst 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 :— United States. 1/6... 2) 60 cents. [Whee [2) aie mas “6 Advertisements (Scale of Charges), displayed :— Continental. 12 months Single copies... s. d. Front page, by arrangement. = Ordinary page, facing matter(whole) ... 3 0 Oo i iy ae Chalf) oo... § 15 0 3 és ele ..» (quarter)... © 0 0 $4 ‘5 ae (eighth) ... I0 oO ‘5 per I inch in column ... 6 0 ” ” » doy ” see 3.0 Special quotations for a series. Exchange Column, General Wants, &c. (not Trade)— First 20 words, 6d.; and for every 3 additional words, rd. Advertisements must reach the office not later than the 24th 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 Square, Fleet Street, London, E.C. American Agents :—The International News Co., 83 and 85, Duane Street, New York City, Notes. Our readers will observe that a few additional pages have been added to this issue. * * * On September 23 a disastrous fire occurred on the premises of Mawson and Swan, Newcastle. We understand that two firemen have died from the effects of the fumes of nitric acid, and several of their employees are laid up with affection of the throat from the same cause. * x * A NOVEL exhibition is being arranged in connection with the Imperial Commercial Museum, Vienna. It is to indicate various modes of advertising, and specimens are being obtained from various parts of the world. These include newspapers, cards and bills of all kinds, sky signs, sails of boats, the optical lantern,and numerous. other devices. & ” * From the hon. secretary of the Camera Club we have received tickets for the Press View on the 6th inst., of the sixth of the One Man Photographic Exhibitions, which will consist of photographs by Mr. Lyd. Sawyer, of Newcastleupon-Tyne. The exhibit will be a fully representative collection, including much new work prepared specially for this exhibition. The pic tures will be on view for about two months. » e 2 Tue auxanoscope of M. Trouvé, electrician, 14, Rue Vivienne, Paris, is a magic lantern in which the ordinary lamp is replaced by an incandescent electric lamp, an improvement which enables the whole apparatus to be greatly simplified and reduced in size. So much is this the case that it has been adopted by the Ligue de ]’Enseignement, whose members travel from town to town and village to village, communicating instruction by lectures. The field of projection is about six feet square, and the light nearly as good as the oxyhydrogen lamp. a 2 2 A CuicaGo chemist claims to have discovered a method whereby aluminium may be produced for