Paper, 'On a new form of stereoscope' by A Stroh

Description

Stroh writes: 'Although the late Sir Charles Wheatstone’s beautiful invention, the stereoscope, gives the appearance of full relief or perfect solidity to photographs of objects seen by its aid, the photographs for the same must naturally be of limited dimensions; and though viewed through magnifying lenses, the images of the objects are presented to the eye on a scale far below the size of their originals. It has therefore occurred to me, that if the magnified image of a photograph projected on a screen by the optical lantern could be made stereoscopic, a still greater resemblance to the original might be obtained.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Scientific apparatus and equipment / Physics

Received 22 March 1886. Read 1 April 1886. Communicated by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt].

A version of this paper was published in volume 40 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On a new form of stereoscope'.

Reference number

PP/8/20

Earliest possible date

1886

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

5 pages

Format

Manuscript