New Magic Lantern Journal

Glossary

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Type of text:  Article

Contained in:  The new magic lantern journal: volume 1 number 1 (April 1978), p.15

Main subjects:

  Hardware:     Biunial lantern
       Camera lucida
       Camera obscura
       Cinematograph
       Dissolver tap
       Graphic telescope
       Kaleidoscope (optical toy)
       Kinora (optical toy)
       Limelight
       Peep egg (optical toy)
       Phenakistiscope (optical toy)
       Photo-Rotoscope (cinematograph)
       Polyscope (optical toy)
       Praxinoscope (optical toy)
       Scientific demonstration lantern
       Slide carrier
       Thaumatrope (optical toy)
       Triunial or triple lantern
       Zoetrope (optical toy)

Other references:

  Subjects:    magic lantern – uses – phantasmagoria
  Hardware:     Cynnagraph (cinematograph)
       Lamp glass
       Megascope
       Peep box (optical toy)
  Slide type:    persistence of vision slide: choreutoscope
      pulley slide: double pulley slide -- chromatrope
  People:    HORNER, William  (fl.1830s)
      WOLLASTON, William Hyde  (1766-1828)
  Organisations:    R.R. Beard

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