The book of the lantern : being a practical guide to the working of the optical (or magic) lantern : with full and precise directions for making and coloring lantern pictures (1889)
Hepworth, Thomas Cradock, -1905 · New York : E.L. Wilson · leaf 268
246 THE BOOK OF THE LANTERN. The opaque lantern was first devised by Chadburn, and for a long time was known by his name. Its construction is simple enough. The object is so placed that it can be strongly illuminated by the condensed rays from either one or two limelights ; an objec- … CC the condensers, O the ob- Fig. 63. jective, and E the object to be shown. At one time, a large instrument of this type was made for casting the image of a human face on the screen, the lenses being of immense size. I saw this instrument at work more than once, but its effect was most dis-…
Lantern projection
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