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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A collection of vivid and colourful images showing life in Victorian Bradford has been acquired by a museum. The National Science and Media Museum (NSMM) is archiving more than 2,600 magic lantern ...

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 ...

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We are wondering about this box of about 50 glass slides with pictures from all over the United States. Everything from Niagara Falls to old railroad cars. They were distributed by the Keystone View ...