Cycloidotrope for lantern - The Invisible Drawing Master

PART OF:: The Kodak Museum Collection

Cycloidotrope for lantern - The Invisible Drawing Master. Lantern slide device for tracing geometric designs on smoked glass disks. Rotating and reciprocating gears and leavers move stylus point over rotating smoked glass disk. With 5 disks with a traced pattern, fixed with varnish.

Details

Category:: Cinematography

Collection:: Kodak Collection

Object Number:: 1990-5036/236

type:: cycloidotrope

credit:: The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford

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Cycloidotrope for lantern, The Invisible Drawing Master

Cycloidotrope for lantern - The Invisible Drawing Master. Lantern slide device for tracing geometric designs on smoked glass disks. Rotating and reciprocating gears and levers move stylus point over rotating smoked glass disk.