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CONTENTS OF MANUAL. 



The Slip Slide 54 



The Lever Slide 55 



Revolving Figures 55 



The Chromatrope 66 



Eidrot ope 57 



Moving Waters 57 



Long Slides 68 



Dioramic Painting, with Mov- 

 ing Figures 58 



The Ghost 58 



The Tank 59 



Precautions about Slides 60 



CHAPTER V. 



PHOTOGRAPHY. 



Glass Positives for the Magic 



Lantern 61 



The Camera 62 



Solutions 



The Negative 64 



The Lens 65 



Dry Plate Process 67 



Collodio-Chloiide Process 71 



Marcy's Photographic Print- 

 ing Apparatus 72 



Sciopticon Process 74 



Woodbury Photo-Relief Slides. 76 



CHAPTER VI. 



COLORING SLIDES. 



Water Colors, etc 78 



Easel Brushes, etc 79 



Statuary 82 



Silhouettes, Natural Objects, 



etc 82 



CHAPTER VII. 



CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS. 



Tank and Pipette 84 



Chemical Reactions 85 



Crystallizations 86 



Miscellaneous Experiments... 87 



CHAPTER VIII. 



DESCRIPTIVE LECTURES. 



Bible Pictures... .... 95 



PA8B 



Sunday-school Pictures 97 



Extracts 98 



Bible Lands 103 



Egypt 110 



Views of interest in all parts 



of the World 119 



Nursery Tales 1 19 



Composition Pirturts 121 



8 tat ua ry 1 22 



Movable Slides 123 



Scientific Slides 123 



CHAPTER IX. 



THE SCIOPTICON AND ITS USES. 



Description of the Sciopticon, 125 

 Magic Lantern, from 1650 to 



1870 126 



Traveling by Magic 128 



Sciopticon for Sunday-schools, 130 



Science at Home 130 



Various Experiments 132 



CHAPTER X. 



THE TEACHER HIS OWN ARTIST. 



A Process of Drawing and 

 Painting Magic Lantern 



Slides 135 



List of Apparatus and Mate- 

 rials 135 



A New Copying Camera 139 



Diaphanie 141 



Enamel Slides 142 



Prepared Glass 142 



Sample of Size and Shape 143 



CHAPTER XI. 



NOVELTIES. 



Chimney Cap 144 



Sciopticon Curtain 144 



Tinters 145 



New Slide Stop 145 



A New Departure 14G 



Eidrotrope HO 



Wheel of Life 147 



Danciug Skeleton 147 



Dance of the Witches !< 



Effect Slides 149 



