The photo was part of a set of late 19th century magic lantern (slide projector) images depicting staged scenes from "The Unlucky Present," a Scottish tale about a blacksmith rescuing a minister ...

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 illustrated glass slide. A lens projected an ...

The magic lantern or Laterna Magica is an early type of image projector employing pictures on sheets of glass ... several sets of late nineteenth century magic lantern slides. A slide show of each ...

The magic lantern is an early type of projector developed in the 17th Century ... prints or photographs on a glass slide. The collection acquired by the NSMM includes 182 sets of slides featuring ...

Rating: Miscaptioned (About this rating?) Context: The photo was part of a set of late 19th century magic lantern (slide projector) images depicting staged scenes from "The Unlucky Present," a ...