Items tagged pre-cinema moving images in MV Collections
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Praxinoscope - Emile Reynaud, 'Le Praxinoscope', post 1889
The praxinoscope, invented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1876 was part of a range of popular philosophical or optical toys created in the 19th century. Like the praxinoscope, most attempt ...
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Projector - Woodbury & Marcy, Magic Lantern, Sciopticon, circa 1880-1900
Magic lantern projector used to project images. It used a double flat wick illuminant, fuelled probably by kerosene/paraffin. The heights of the wicks could be controlled in order to ge ...
From: Philadelphia, United States Images: 1 -
Projector - Magic Lantern, Lampascope, post 1861.
A beautiful magic lantern produced for home use. The lampascope was designed to fit on top of a domestic oil lamp to utilise its light and thus did not require its own illuminant. La ...
From: London, United Kingdom Images: 1 -
Projector - Magic Lantern, circa 1900
This rather utilitarian metal lantern would have been produced for professional, rather than domestic use. It utilized gas as an illuminant fuel. While the invention of the magic lante ...
From: London, United Kingdom Images: 2 -
Projector - W.C. Hughes, Magic Lantern, Pamphengos, circa 1883
The Pamphengos magic lantern was designed and produced by the optician William Charles Hughes, who first brought out this model in 1880. Its illumination system was fuelled by paraffin ...
From: London, United Kingdom Images: 4 -
Projector - W. Butcher & Sons Ltd, Magic Lantern, 1913-1930
Metal projector used to view slides. The manufacturer or distributor was W. Butcher and Sons Ltd. The original Butcher's business was established in 1866. The company's name changed to ...
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Projector - Magic Lantern, 1890-1920
This metal projector was used to view slides. This optical lantern was possibly used in Melbourne, Victoria, at least at some stage as the projector box has a Victorian Railway sticker ...
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Projector - Unknown Manufacturer, Magic Lantern, circa 1880-1920
Metal projector was used to view slides. It is by an unknown maker but has a Stocks' patent 4-wick oil illuminant - patent number 705. The Englishman Walter Stocks patented a number of ...
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Projector - Magic Lantern, circa 1880-1920
Metal projector with a kerosene illuminant used to view lantern slides. The maker is unknown. While the invention of the magic lantern is generally seen to be in the 17th century, its ...
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Projector - Ross, Magic Lantern, Enlarger, 1890-1920
Projector used to view lantern slides. It has been converted to electric illumination. Andrew Ross was a scientific instrument maker and optician working in London from 1830 till his d ...
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