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Reference EXEBD 36630
Title The magic lantern: how to buy and how to use it, also how to raise a ghost
Date 1876
Place of Publication London
Publisher Houlston and Sons
Document Type Printed Book
Library/Archive The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum
Notes Contents of the book include: 'Sizes to Lanterns' (p9-10); 'Chapter for Children' (p11-14); 'Phantasmagoria Lantern - How to buy it?' (p15-17); 'Phantasmagoria Lantern- How to use it' (p18-21); 'Argand Lamp' (p22-23); 'Recapitulation (oil lantern)' (p24); 'Oxycalcium Light and Lamp' (p25); 'List of Oxycalcium apparatus' (p26); 'Apparatus for making oxygen' (p27); 'Preparation of Oxygen Gas' (p28); 'Pressureboards' (p29-30); 'Safety Oxyhydrogen Jet' (p31); 'Recapitulation (Oxycalcium)' (p32); 'Oxyhydrogen Light and Lamp' (p32); 'List of Oxyhydrogen Apparatus' (p33); 'Preparation of Hydrogen Gas' (p34); 'Apparatus for making hydrogen gas' (p35-36); 'Coal gas a substitute for hydrogen' (p37); 'Weights' (p37); 'India-rubber tubing' (p38); 'Connectors' (p38); 'Clockwork' (p39); 'Recapitulation (Oxyhydrogen)' (p40); 'Gas bags' (p41); 'Opaque Lanterns' (p41-42); 'Slides or pictures' (p43-45); 'Natural History Slides 3in.' (p46-49); 'Slipping Slide' (p50); 'Lever Slide' (p51-52); 'Chromatope' (p53); 'Chinese Fireworks' (p55); 'Revolving Figures' (p55); 'Moving Waters' (p56); 'Precautions in using Slide' (p56); 'Lantern Microscope (Oxyhydrogen)' (p58-60); 'Lantern Kaleidoscope' (p61-62); 'Oxyhydrogen Polariscope' (p63); 'The Screen' (p64-66); 'Dissolving views' (p67-72); 'Double-bodied Lantern' (p73-74); 'Dioptric Dissolving Apparatus' (p75); 'List of Useful Sundries' (p76); 'Designs for Frames for Series of Views' (p77); 'The Ghost' (p78-79); 'Easel of Colouring Slides' (p80).
Topics magic lantern, optical entertainment, optical illusion
Copyright The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum