CONTENTS.
| The History of the Magic Lantern. | |
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| The introduction of mineral oil lanterns.—The advance caused by the aid of photography.—The optical system of a modern lantern.—Educational value of the lantern | 1-12 |
| The Lime-Light. | |
| Different forms of lime-jets.—Precautions to be observed in their use | 12-16 |
| Dissolving Views. | |
| The old method and the new.—The biunial lantern.—The dissolving-tap and its management.—Coincident discs.—‘Effects’—The application of the double lantern to spectrum analysis | 17-22 |
| Making Oxygen Gas. | |
| Necessary precautions.—The purifier.—Explanatory diagram.—Practical details.—The retort.—The gas-bag.—Iron bottle for compressed gas.—Pressure-boards.—Lime cylinders | 22-33 |
| The Screen or Sheet. | |
| Arrangement adapted to a sitting-room.—Public exhibitions.—Method of hanging a large sheet.—Sheets on frames | 33-37 |
| Pictures for the Lantern. | |
| Photographic slides.—Home-made pictures.—Drawing pictures on ground-glass.—The slide-painter’s easel.—Mounting slides | 37-43 |
| On the Colouring of Photographic Transparencies. | |
| The process described.—Oil-colours employed.—Apparatus required.—Mixed tints.—How to lay on the colour.—Finishing touches.—Painting in water-colours | 43-55 |
| Showing Solid and Opaque Objects on the Lantern Screen. |
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| Chadburn’s opaque lantern.—The aphengescope.—Showing coins, medals, etc.—The opaque lantern in a law court.—The physioscope | 56-61 |
| The Lantern Microscope. | |
| Photographic microscopic slides.—The solar microscope.—A sketch lecture | 61-65 |
| Mechanical or Moving Pictures. | |
| Comic slips.’—Beale’s choreutoscope.—The dancing skeleton | 66-69 |
| Concluding Remarks. | |
| The management of the lantern in public.—Signals between lecturer and operator | 70-75 |