单词 | sciopticon |
释义 | sciopticonn. Now historical. A portable magic lantern designed for displaying photographs. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > lantern > magic lantern > types of lucernal microscope1743 megascope1831 oxyhydrogen microscope1839 physioscope1844 aphengescope1869 sciopticon1870 stereopticon1875 anarithmoscope1882 tri-unial1891 triple1892 episcope1909 1870 Documents Assembly State of N.Y. XIII. 892 The Sciopticon. Mr. L. J. Marcy of Philadelphia has given this appropriate name to an improved portable magic lantern... The sciopticon, well supplied with photographic pictures of remarkable organic structures, beautiful scenery and specimens of line architecture, will be prized in many a family as an unfailing scource [sic] of amusement and instruction. 1871 L. J. Marcy (title) The sciopticon manual: explaining Marcy's new magic lantern and light, including magic lantern optics, experiments, photographing and coloring slides, etc. 1883 Eng. Mech. 6 Apr. 104 Of the oil-lanterns it will be supposed that I prefer the sciopticon. 1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 401/2 To make an enlargement on a 12 by 10 opal, using a sciopticon burning paraffin. 1901 Course of Study 1 425/1 The sciopticon, or ‘magic lantern’, working drawings of which are given herewith, is designed in such a manner that it can be constructed in the manual training room or carpenter-shop. 1957 New Yorker 13 July 20/3 We made..stage-lighting apparatus and effects of every description..—gallery reflectors..and sciopticons (these produced such stage effects as snow, rainbows, rain, lightning, waterfalls). 1982 L. L. Marker & F. J. Marker Ingmar Bergman iii. 114 The bold attempt by Emil Grandinson to use sciopticon projections in the first production of To Damascus I (1900) had been too far ahead of its time. 2012 H. Schmidgen in N. Anderson & M. R. Dietrich Educated Eye iv. 108 The kymographic registration of the animal's circulation took place on a glass plate that, while the experiment was taking place, moved horizontally through a sciopticon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1870 |
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