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Magic Lanterns & Slides.
WHY does WALTER TYLER do the Largest Business and is able
to Make and Sell Lanterns and Slides Cheaper than any so-called
Manufacturers and Stores ?
BECAUSE, making the Lantern and Slide Business his entire occupation,
he is able to produce goods of much Better Quality at Lower
Prices, and it is estimated that WALTER TYLER supplies more
Exhibitors with goods than the whole of the other houses combined.
WALTER TYLER'S
New Helioscopic Lantern
Has many great Improvements over any other Lantern, including 4Pn. Condensers
and Extra Large Front Lenses, giving greatest Brilliancy of Light and Perfect
Definition. No extra charge.
OXYGEN! OXYGEN ! ! OXYGEN ! ! !
Also HYDROGEN, of the Best Quality, compressed in thoroughly tested and
re-annealed cylinders, at lowest possible prices. Better and Cheaper than any
other House.
Walter Tyler's New Catalogue,
Upwards of 500 Pages, Fully Illustrated, now ready, post free, 12 Stamps ; Smaller
Catalogue, 6 Stamps ; and Second-hand Lists, post free.
HIRE DEPARTMENT.
Perfect. Great Reductions. If you desire to Purchase, Hire, or Exchange, send to
Walter Tyler, who makes this business a specialite, and you will be well satisfied.
Second-hand Lanterns, Slides, and all kinds of Lantern Apparatus, at
greatly Reduced Prices, Genuine Bargains. Send for Lists.
WALTER TYLER,
48, 50, 94. WATERLOO ROAD, LONDON.
MODERN MAGIC LANTERNS.
CHAPTER 1.
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THE Optical or Magic Lantern, which has in the last
few years come so very largely into use, not only for the
purposes of education and amusement, but also for advertising,
for photographic enlarging, and has even been
Fig. 1. MAGIC LANTERN AND SCREEN,
pressed into the services of religion at more than one
London church, may be diagrammatically represented
by Fig. 1. This sketch represents the lantern reduced to
its simplest expression, and before proceeding- to describe
in detail the many modifications of and additions to the
instrument which ingenuity during the past few years has
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