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 376
echanical resources upon which rest the advancesof modern photography. The images duly impressed on anarrow strip of celluloid, which resumes its journey 2760times a minute, are developed by carefully timed machin-ery. When such a strip is brought into the kinetoscope,and moved and halted at… … Plate XIV. EDISON KINETOGRAPHIC PICTURES.A dance. ECLIPSES REPEATED 317 ing the swift motion of water—the dash of breakers againsta cliff, the rush and tumult of the rapids and falls of Niag-ara, the ebullition and subsidence of a Yellowstone geyser.Of course, where the movements depicted are…
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