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The Optical Magic Lentern Journal and Photographic Enlarger.
this did very well for a time, but he then wanted something better, and having got this and used it for a while, wanted something better still. Wanting ‘‘ something better still” eventually led to his having one of the best apparatus in use in those days, but even this did not satisfy him for long, so he determined between buying and making certain parts, to make his own outfit. So many improvements
were thus added, that wher exhibiting publicly,
1895.
others desired to have certain attachments of a
similar character added to their apparatus, and these Mr. Noakes undertook to fit.
This led to his fitting up a workshop in one :
of his father’s (now D. Noakes & Sons) wholesale forage warehouses, close to the riverside at Greenwich. Here the business of a manufacturing optician grew to such an extent that space could not be spared for a showroom and a workshop, so seven years ago this department of Noakes & Son’s business was removed to larger premises in Nelson Street, where, under
the able management of the son, it grew apace, and even included certain engineering work, there being lathes capable of turning metal up to 30 inches in diameter.
Mr. D. W. Noakes is a busy man, for not only does he attend to a section of the forage business as well as the lantern department, but also devotes a portion of his time to dioramic lecturing, and some time ago undertook some extensive work in connection with hydraulic engineering, including the closing of a fracture six feet long in a costly hydraulic cylinder, worked at 600 lbs. to the inch. This he accomplished in a manner said to be unique in the annals of engineering.
In connection with the lantern and optical department, our readers are well aware how extensive this has grown, and how popular have become Noakes’ patent triple dissolver, compound chamber jet, intermediate jet regulators, and other appliances.
It is with regret we learn (as far as lanternists are concerned), that at no distant date Mr. D. W. Noakes will be retiring from the optical department of the business engaged in by this firm, for owing to the retiring of Mr. D. Noakes, the senior partner, from active supervision in the forage business, much extra work devolves on the son, and although ably assisted by two brothers (junior partners), the firm has lately entered into some large contracts which will demand most of his time for some years, and with this end in view he has Jately purchased a house in Westcombe, where, however, he intends to erect a miniature workshop with lathe and other necessary tools, so that when any idea pertaining to lanterns occurs to him he will be able to practically carry it out in a manner worthy of a lantern enthusiast.
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The Electric Light in the Optical Lantern.—No. II.
By CECIL M. HEPWORTH.
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