Cycloidotrope for lantern - The Invisible Drawing Master

PART OF:: The Kodak Museum Collection

Made:: c. 1865 in England

maker:: Unknown

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.

The Cycloidotrope was a lantern slide with an adjustable stylus bar for drawing geometric patterns on sooty glass when hand cranked during projection. The stylus bar can be set in any position, altering its angle and length. The patterns are similar to those produced with a toy spirograph.

Details

Category:: Cinematography

Collection:: Kodak Collection

Object Number:: 1990-5036/236

Materials:: wood (unidentified) and metal (unknown)

type:: cycloidotrope

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

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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.