The Optical Magic Lantern Journal (May 1891)

THE OPTICAL MAGIC LANTERN JOURNAL —— AND PHOTOGRAPHIG ENLARGER. EDITED BY J. HAY TAYLOR. Vol. 2.—No. 24, Listeumnees Ban. MAY 1, 1891. Price One Penny. CONTENTS. PAGE. Notes ie we 10 4 Hand Cameras for ‘Obtaining PAGE. An Uluminated Fountain an How to Make it .. Slides for the Lantern— Registration ; or the Art ae No. 12 108 Dissolving with Precision 112 Crystal Palace Photo ExhiA Home-made Lantern .. ... 13 bition ee ; . 109 Flashes on Lan:zern Topics v DA A Lantern Curiosity + 109 Editorial ‘Vable we Ub Substitutes for Hydrogen for Society Meetings ... » 115 the Limelight sae ee 109 Correspondence ee 115 How I Became a Lanternist 111 | Notes and Queries. « Tle | Contents oF No, 23. Notes—Fantoccini * des —Hand Cameras for Obtaining Slides for the Lantern (No. 11.)— Pressure Gauges—Experience with Ethoxo Lime Tight Elecoic Incandescent Lamps for Optical Lanterns— Hints on Enlarging —F lame tatinguishers and Method of Testing —Flashes on Lantern Topics— Ether Saturators—On *‘ Pressure’s a” Riddle and Regulators in General —Fluid in Gas Cylinder —Corre spondence. (The Lantern for Suffering Humanity—The ‘t Ethoxo Light "—Notes and Queries.) | back to about 1290 a.D. * ® ' Messrs. Notices. THE Optical Magic Lantern Journal and Photographic Enlarger is issued on the Ist of very 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. 1zmonths... 1/6 ... 2/Single copies... United States. 60 cents. SUE ees R/2? see cee, (OS gs Advertisements (Scale of Charges), displayed :— 5-3: Front and back pages, by arrangement. Ordinary page, ue matter(whole) . 3,0 0 5a Ys «es Chalf) 115 oO +3 33 Cee Io Oo 3 (eighth) . 10 Oo ns . per I inch in column ... 6 0 ” ” ” $ ” ” eee 3.0 Special quotations for a series. Exchange Column, General Wants, &c. (not Trade)— First 20 words, 6d.; and for every 3 additional words, 1d. 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, Salistvry Square, Fleet Street, London, E.C. American Agents :—The International News Co., 83 and , ; ' Society. 85, Duane Street, New York City. Notes. Tue Spectacle Makers’ Company have of late been ‘‘ backward in coming forward,” but arrangements are being made to hold an exhibition next year. Various optical instruments will be exhibited. It may be of interest to know that use of single spectacles may be traced back two thousand years, whilst binocular spectacles only date * Two drop-the-penny-in-the -slot photographic machines are placed in the north of London, one in Upper-street, ncarly opposite the premises of Humphries & Co., lantern apparatus manufacturers ; and the other at Crisp’s, Seven Sisters-road. In both cases, however, a bill is posted across them, “ Not Workinc.” Perhaps when the weather is brighter they will be in operation. AT the Camera Club Conference (April 7 and 8), interesting papers were given by Messrs, Clark, Pinrell, Lambert, Nott, Sutton, Boys and Elder. By permission of the council, the meetings were held in the theatre of the Society of Arts. On the evening of the 7th, a fine collection of lantern slides were projected before a large audience, whilst on that of the 8th the annual club dinner was given at the Criterion Restaurant. The annual exhibition of photographs will be on view in the club-house, Charing Cross-road, for about three weeks longer, from Io a.m. to 4 p.m. 2 » SocreTIeS intending to purchase a high class lantern outfit will do well to observe an advertisement of a fine apparatus to be found in this issue. We understand that the instrument and fittings cost upwards of £150, and that. about one-halt only of its cost is asked; also that arrangements are being made to send itto London, where it may be inspected. > On 15th inst. Scott's Verak lantern for projecting photographs in natural colour will be exhibited before the Manchester Photographic be 2