MACHINERY IN MOTION. other represents the mutoscope in operation, and alse It does not often happen that a device, which was closed with the mirror and turning-crank removed. The originally designed as a mere toy, becomes an instru- photographs of objects in motion are taken upon ment of practical… … scribed as “the little brother of shown), and allowed to sweep past the eye one by one, as one thumbs the biograph.” it is a simple and the leaves of a book, an apparently ingenious contrivance for the ex- moving picture is the result, and hibition in a cabinet of the same the exact motions of the…
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