. Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people. Fig. 1. to the holes in the wall. The person whose like-ness is to be taken stands in the centre under tlieglass dome, and at a given signal the canuras aresimultaneously brought into action, and a photo-graph is taken. The whole .if this arrangementwill be fullv by reference to hg. 1. The twenty-four photographs are carefullynumbered, so t^at no error can take place m the PHOTO-ZINCOGRAPHY—PHRENOLOGY. subsequent operation, whicli is performed in anotherchamber: any room which can be darkened will
. Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people. Fig. 1. to the holes in the wall. The person whose like-ness is to be taken stands in the centre under tlieglass dome, and at a given signal the canuras aresimultaneously brought into action, and a photo-graph is taken. The whole .if this arrangementwill be fullv by reference to hg. 1. The twenty-four photographs are carefullynumbered, so t^at no error can take place m the PHOTO-ZINCOGRAPHY—PHRENOLOGY. subsequent operation, whicli is performed in anotherchamber: any room which can be darkened will consists in placing them in consecutive order on a. Fig. 2. vertical wheel, which is so arranged that at the willof the operator each one can be brought before thelens of a magic lantern, and its image projected on a 1st Phrase. transparent screen, as in fig. 2. The modeHin;j; clayis so placed, i-ather behind the screen, that the artistcan use a ]iantograph, which has its reducing })i)intarmed with a mouldimj or cutting tool instead of amere marker; and as the longer arm of the instru-ment describes the outline of the projected figuresobtained from the photographs, the shorter (tne iareproducing on a smaller scale the figure in the statuette thus produced requires retouchingwith the hand to remove the sharp and ruggedlines of the cutting-tools, and of course muchdepends ujjou artistic skill in doing this. In theskilled bands which have yet had to do with itsoperations, the arrangement has had so marked asuccess as to promise to produce in time the mostsatisfactory results. PHOTO-ZINCOGRAPHY. See PhotographicEngraving. PHRAGMIT
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