Optic projection : principles, installation and use of the magic lantern, projection microscope, reflecting lantern, moving picture machine, fully illustrated with plates and with over 400 text-figures (1914)

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682 OPTIC PROJECTION same by means of a magic lantern, and synthesi^ed or recombined the movement on the screen as he had previously done in the zoetrope. From 18831885, under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, over one hundred thousand (100,000) pictures of movements of men and all kinds of animals were made. These were published in several folio volumes in 1887. FIG. 409. THE D^EDALEUM OF HORNKR (ZOETROPE). (From Marey, Movement, 1895) In this instrument figures or photographs can be arranged in a band around the inside of the cylinder, or, as in this, case models of a moving animal can be arranged in order. When the instrument is revolved the images or models seem to perform their natural movements of walking, flying, etc. The second period is represented by the making of the gelatino-bromide process of photography practical by Maddox in 1871, and by making this process exceedingly rapid by heating or boiling the emulsion (Bennett and others in 1878 and later). The third epoch making period was inaugurated by the Rev. Hannibal Goodwin when he worked out a practical method of making a solution and then a film of transparent, tough, flexible cellulose which was unaffected by the chemicals and liquids used in photography. His application for a patent was filed in 1887, and the patent granted in 1898, and the validity of the patent finally confirmed by the United States