Book on Scientific Subjects written by Sir John F.W. Herschel with no photos or plates, but only a few small diagrams. Three of them deal with light and one from 1833 discusses "the absorption light by coloured media..." Heschel died in 1871. 507 pages.
Inside the front cover is a label for "I. W. Middleton Berry, Ballynegall."
book about the pyramids with 17 diagram plates explaining the design, chamber & passage system, and measurments of them.
Published by W. Isbister & Co. 526 pages including appendicies and index. Inside the back cover is the binder plate for Burn & Co. The frontispiece, Plate 1, is a General Sectional View of Great Pyramid
book of Bible verses of the more well known stories in the Bible such as, Adam and Eve, Noah, Joshua, and Moses, with 12 tipped-in illustrations, one for each story.
134 pages. Published by Arthur Miall, London. Printed by Josiah Smith, Biester and Winslow. The Preface is by "Gospel Oak". The title page refers to the author's prior (1861) publication as "The Expositions of the Cartoons of Raphel" by Richard Henry Smith, Jr.
These are four pieces of motion picture film made by Eugene Augustin Lauste while experimenting with sound-on-film technology. Two of the pieces are examples of a sound only, variable area process, printed in positive across the full width of 35mm film, labled 35B. One of the pieces is an example pf Lauste's Sound and Scene process, in which both soundtrack and movie images were printed on 35mm film. This 16 frame-long strip is labeled positive, but appears to be a negative. It is labled 35A. Another Sound and Scene print, labeled 35C, is a positive print on 35 safety film about 6 ft long.
Description
The PHC’s Early Sound Cinema Collection [COLL.PHOTOS.000040] includes the unit’s holdings of apparatus, film and other media related to the history of matching recorded sound to projected motion pictures. The collection includes over 50 pieces of apparatus related to Eugene Augustin Lauste’s experiments with sound-on-film technology. Lauste, a pioneering motion picture engineer, used selenium cells to record playable soundtracks alongside images on film in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Lauste failed to find commercial success with his inventions, and Bell Laboratories bought the rights to Lauste’s work and collections for patent litigation use before donating the materials to the Smithsonian in the 1930s. The collection also includes several pieces of apparatus used to record and project motion pictures with sound before the process became an industry standard, two short lengths of film used to demonstrate early processes and a film of a lecture on the history of sound experiments from 1922.
This collection is one in a series documenting the PHC’s Early Cinema Collection [COLL.PHOTOS.000018]. The cinema-related objects cover the range of technological innovation and popular appeal that defined the motion picture industry during a period in which it became the premier form of mass communication in American life, roughly 1885-1930. See also finding aids for Early Cinema Equipment [COLL.PHOTOS.000037], Early Color Cinema [COLL.PHOTOS.000039], Early Cinema Film and Ephemera [COLL.PHOTOS.000038], and the Gatewood Dunston Collection [COLL.PHOTOS.000021].
