Living Pictures Their History Photoproduction And Practical Working With A Digest Of British Patents And Annotated Bibliography

Author : Henry V. Hopwood
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331906216
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Living Pictures; Their History, Photo-Production and Practical Working written by Henry V. Hopwood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Living Pictures; Their History, Photo-Production and Practical Working: With a Digest of British Patents and Annotated Bibliography In presenting this book to my readers I feel the necessity of making a few remarks with regard to its scope. The subject of which it treats is, in earlier years, so bound up with researches on Persistence of Vision that I have been sorely tempted to stray into many seductively interesting bye-paths. Limitations of time and space have, however, exercised a certain influence, and I have been compelled to restrict my work in absolute conformity with the title of my book. Therefore, none of the interesting apparatus for demonstrating persistence of vision find a place within these pages, nor have the various theories on the subject been discussed. I have somewhat reluctantly confined myself strictly to the description and history of apparatus for producing the illusion of motion. At the same time, my book (within its proper limits) commences early, and, at the conclusion of a review covering over two thousand years, will be found, I hope, fully "up to date." I have adopted the practice of italicising the name of each instrument when first met with in the Historical Section, and the Index will be found to include, in alphabetical order, not only names properly applied, but also such misspelled variations as I may have met with, and also many which have been erroneously used, they, like "the flowers which bloom in the spring," having "nothing to do with the case." The changes rung on Kine-, Cine-, and Vita-are so numerous - one might say irritating - that I am led to hope that the mathematical laws of permutation may break down, and, in defiance of arithmetical rules, thus create a necessity for radical changes in the naming of later machines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.