Flame, electricity and the camera; man's progress from the first kindling of fire to the wireless telegraph and the photography of color (1900)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday & McClure co. · leaf 374
hoop, of the Kinetoscope. and the j^ jjj^ &yeTy ^^ success_ ful toy, this of Plateaus depends uponmotion. In its familiar form his zoetrope, or wheel of life,is a cylinder eight or ten inches in width, about seveninches high, and open at the top. Around the lower halfof its interior is a series… … THE ILLUSION OF MOTION 315 sion of a picture lasts the twenty-fifth of a second, and be-fore it has time to fade away there is superposed on theretina an impression from the next andbut slightly different picture, and so onthroughout the series. Because the im-pressions blend with one another, the…
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