Great facts : a popular history and description of the most remarkable inventions during the present century (1860)
Bakewell, Frederick C. (Frederick Collier), 1800-1869 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 126
110 GREAT FACTS. Any one who has a taste for drawing, and a littleingenuity, may thus produce many pleasing and as-tonishing effects. It will be desirable to procure, in … the first instance, a box, so contrived that it will holdthe painting, and afford the means of throwing thelight on the front or on the back at pleasure. Thediagram shows the form of such a box. The lettersa, Z>, ^, d mark the outside ; the aperture, at c d^ beingenlarged to permit several…
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