Machine which corresponds to prototype of slide projector " Magic Lamp Machine" projects images drawn on glass onto curtains etc. using lamps and lenses. According to John Plunket of Exeter College, ...

More commonly known as "magic lanterns," these projectors were the ancestors of the motion picture projector, the 35mm slide projector, filmstrips, and even the PowerPoint presentation. Using lenses ...

Russell Maronn pulls down the shades in his basement, opens a stand-up projection screen and plugs in a nearly century-old black mahogany “magic lantern” slide projector. With thick fingers, the burly ...

LONG before the birth of the motion picture, audiences worldwide were entertained by magic lantern shows that brought popular stories, temperance tales and ghosts and ghouls to vivid life. Magic ...

A double magic lantern projector that's been converted from oil to electric lamps. The dual projector allows for one slide to be shown while another is changed. Printed on front and sides: "Benj. Pike ...

The magic lantern or Laterna Magica is an early type of image projector employing pictures on sheets of glass. Developed in the 17th century, they were commonly used for educational and entertainment ...

Similar to a slide projector, but with more alluring subject matter than mitosis and meiosis, magic lanterns were the 19th-century entertainment. A show at the Museum of the City of New York brought ...

More than 2,600 photos provide a time machine to the Victorian era. The pictures show Bradford, West Yorkshire in the late 1800s and early 1900s, depicting the city post-industrialisation, when it ...

At Purdue University (Lafayette, Ind.) Physicist Karl Lark-Horovitz last week showed big magic lantern pictures of atoms in action. In oldtime magic lanterns, a strong light shone through an ...

It was 6:45 p.m. at January’s First Friday and I found myself at Blue Star’s Three Walls Gallery trying to quickly get a photo of projectionist Luke Savisky before the crowd came storming through the ...