The Optical Magic Lantern Journal (June 1896)

92 At the present time many of those articles have reached me, and are in type, and I would ask those who intend to kindly lend me their support to let me have their communications during the next four or five weeks. As illus.trations greatly facilitate reading, a rough sketch with articles will be ample from which to make finished drawings and blocks. Those who wish advertisements displayed in the annual will of course communicate with our publishers. J. Hay Taytor, Editor. — :0:—— Notes. Messrs. DomerEr & Co. are now supplying tungstate of lime in crystals, for experiments with the Réntgen rays, at a moderate price. c Xx * Tur Hackney Photographic Society has issued a creditable balance-sheet, and quite lately a 1 | On the authority of Professor W. J. Spratley, it inch by 10 inch camera has been purchased for the use of the members. secretaryship of Mr. Fenton Jones this society business Mr. Jones feels constrained not to seek re-election. Messrs. E. H. Ktoor & Co., makers of scientific instruments, have lately dissolved partnership, and Mr. Kloot has established himself on his own account at 4, Tenter Street North, Aldgate, E. Diamonps when submitted to the X rays allow the rays to pass through them, whilst to these rays imitation ones are opaque: % x te A PLEASING combination of music and lantern exhibitions was lately given by the Rev. James Hay at Montrose, which tended to keep the members of the Mission Hall in harmonious contact. Walter Tyler, of Waterloo Road, has purchased the oxygen works at Sheftield Street, erected : by Leonard Chapman & Co. We do not know definite particulars, but it is certain that Mr. Tyler has some startling announcement to wake to lanternists— at least, his advertisement on our front page intimates as much. Wander ie able ben: ' light of Mrs. Besant and Madame Blavatsky, has raised itself to a very high standard, and it . and appear worthy of attention. is to be regretted that owing to pressure of | (he says), [am strenuously opposed to the dis i torted cult of theosophy, yet its votaries may | the Midlands. The Optical Magic Lantern Journal and Photographic Enlarger. THERE would appear to be a good opening for ladies to undertake lantern entertainments. A series of successful entertainments by Mrs. Ellis and Miss Sturge have lately been given in One lady gave the lectures, and the other manipulated the lantern. * * * In the course of a lecture on acetylene by Mr. J. M. Crafts at Boston, United States, America, he explained that ‘the peculiar property of acetylene which gives it strength is its storing up of heat. I consider it very desirable that a great deal more work and study be put into acetylene than have been. Its use for gas engines is worth looking into. I hope the companies dealing in it will see their way clear for larger experiments. I would like to see a rail | road train from headlight to rear lanterns lit with acetylene and given a thorough trial. A small village should be equipped with the cylinders. Only in this way can an old industry which has been built up by years of thought and labour be supplanted.” is said that the Réntgen X rays are the astral “ Personally be the jailers of many great truths. And it is obvious that if light and thought are one, and if the X rays are, in their ultimate characteristic, a form of thought, the claim of a certain Parsee may have some foundation, in fact, for clairvoyance, and all astral phenomena are modes of thought, and occult, or astral, light is contained in thought; therefore, as light is a connecting link between thought and matter, ‘ Réntgen’s Shadow Forms’ may be the window of the invisible.” * cd HE WHEN recently lecturing at the Royal Institution on acetylene gas, Professor Dewar showed an interesting experiment. Into a glass vessel filled with acetylene he introduced an electric arc, and by means of the lantern projected the results on the screen. It was seen Rumour is ever busy, and it now says that Mr, ; that as the sparks passed through the gas, | particles of carbon floated in the globe containing the gas, until they formed a connection between the poles, and a spark was no longer visible, the current being carried across. * * 4 Harper Bros., of New York, have entered an action against Messrs. Riley Bros., of Bradford