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English: Title: Woodbury Improved Sciopticon Or. 27.426 - 1 Persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:2304515 Part of Title: Woodbury Improved Sciopticon Or. 27.426 Author/creator: Marcy, Lorenzo J. Woodbury, Walter B. (Walter Bentley) (1834-1885) Shelfmark: Or. 27.426 Subject (topical): Projectors (image projectors) Magic lanterns Note: The Woodbury Improved Sciopticon, which was invented by Lorenzo J. Marcy in Philadelphia around 1872 and sold in Britain from 1873 by Walter B. Woodbury. The base of the projector is wood and supports the metal casing for the glass lens. The circular lens at the front is encased in brass and the section to hold slides is also brass. The back section which originally housed a kerosene lamp is made from painted tinplate. (information from: https://ehive.com/collections/3977/objects/892608/magic-lantern-projecto...) Maker\'s plate at front \"THE WOODBURY/ IMPROVED/ SCIOPTICON/ REGISTERED TRADE MARK THE SCIOPTICON\". The 6 books and documents mentioned in this record are part of signature Or. 27.426 and are placed in the box with the magic lantern. Also document with information of the auctions of the sciopticon and het lantern slides (Or. 27.426 and Or. 27.425) at Bonhams, 4 October 1911. Reference: The Sciopticon Manual. Containing full directions for using this new drawing room lantern. 3rd edition. Woodbury, Lecture on Java. To acoompany 48 photographs taken by him during his residence in the Island. [copied from an original in the Barnes Collection, part of the Magic Lantern Society Slide Readings Library]. Alan F. Elliott, The Woodbury Papers. Letters and Documents held by The Royal Photographic Society. Second Printing with Corrections 1997. Walter Woodbury. A Victorian Study, Melbourne 2008. Lantern slides. How to make and color them. 6th edition, Rochester 1921. Walter B. Woodbury, Science at home. A series of experiments in chemistry, optics, electricity, magnetism, etc. adapted for the magic lantern. [reprinted from the English Mechanic]. Language: No linguistic content Country: No place, unknown, or undetermined Form: 1 projector: magic lantern ; 43.5 x 36 x 14 cm (magic lantern), 40 x 31 x 17.8 cm (wooden box) Published: 1875-1885 Persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:2304520 Published (digital): Leiden University Libraries, Extent: 4 scans (magic lantern) and 15 scans (manual with 56 pages) : Part of collection: Part of: Geoffrey Allan Edwards |
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| Author | Marcy, Lorenzo J. |
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