Wheatstone's Moving Picture Viewer
- Made:
- circa 1870 in London
- inventor:
- CHARLES WHEATSTONE
Stereo-kinematographic viewing apparatus, 'Wheatstone's Moving Picture Viewer'. Holding a reel of stereoscopic images of a steam engine (albumen prints).
Invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), the scientist who put forward the principle of the stereoscope, this device contained a band of stereoscopic photographs, posed to simulate movement, fitted around a drum. The drum was rotated intermittently, giving the viewer an impression of movement.
Details
- Category:
- Cinematography
- Object Number:
- 1949-265/2
- Materials:
- glass, wood (unidentified), iron and brass (copper, zinc alloy)
- Measurements:
-
overall: 500 mm x 280 mm x 350 mm,
- type:
- stereo viewer
- credit:
- King's College, London
