The wonders of modern mechanismA résumé of recent progress in mechanical, physical, and engineering science . to give some fifty thousand candle-power. The kinetoscope as best known to the public of to-dayis a nickel-in-the-slot affair for reproducing dances andboxing bouts. Such is not its true mission, however. Itis meant to present reproductions of grand opera andthe higher class of enduring theatrical performances, withthe action and the sounds in unison. Such results maybe made more life-like by viewing the pictures througha magnifying-glass or projecting them upon a Lath
The wonders of modern mechanismA résumé of recent progress in mechanical, physical, and engineering science . to give some fifty thousand candle-power. The kinetoscope as best known to the public of to-dayis a nickel-in-the-slot affair for reproducing dances andboxing bouts. Such is not its true mission, however. Itis meant to present reproductions of grand opera andthe higher class of enduring theatrical performances, withthe action and the sounds in unison. Such results maybe made more life-like by viewing the pictures througha magnifying-glass or projecting them upon a Latham has experimented Mith methods forreproducing in magnified form on a screen the pictures asseen in the kinetoscope. He has been successful, devisinga means for making the perfi3rmance continuous when de- THE KINETO-PHONOGRAPH. 73 sired. He calls his apparatus the eidoscope, and has givenexhibitions in Xew York city and elsewhere, throwingnearly life-size moving pictures upon a screen. The possibilities of the kineto-phonograph are almostendless. It may bring to our doors the sights and scenes Fig. THE KINETO-PHONOGRAPH. which heretofore have been obtainable only by travellingin distant lauds. It will carry the eloquence of comingorators and the voices of gifted singers to the ears ofwaking mortals long after the original voices are hushedin death. It will bring to the bedside of the invalid allmanner of amusement suited to his fancy. It will giveD 7 74 WONDERS OF MODERN MECHANISM. to all the privileges now open only to those few who gazethrough the large telescopes at the wonders of the student of history in the year 5000 will be able todrop iuto some public resort and select from a cataloguesome stirrino event of a bv-«;one aije, and lo ! the sceneis before him as real in its action as on the day of itshappening. He may gaze on the beauteous women whohave been famous because they outrivalled the beautiesof their day; he may view the tremendous carnage tha
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