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Wood-Framed Lantern Slide (Slipping Type): Shooting Stars, c.1920

Inventory Number 66958


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.66958

Item type
Object
Provenance
Transferred from the University Observatory, Oxford.
Primary inscriptions
Paper label: 'University Observatory, Oxford'.
Object type
Lantern slide
Dimensions
Height: 116mm Width: 293mm Depth: 19mm Weight: 204g
Inventory No
66958

Description

Home made rectangular wooden with two blackened glasses (photographic plates?) with lines, etc. so that when one is drawn across the other there is the shooting star effect. Draw rod made from an umbrella tine! The piece is held together at one end with a brass alloy plate and two brass alloy screws. Instructions and information are written on the wooden frame.