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Binder with a series of supplements from the Sunday Times magazine giving a chronological account of inventions. Fully illustrated in ...
#42569 Book / Non-Cinema
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Annual on ninettenth and early twentiethh century culture contains an article by Olive Cook on R.W Paul (p82); There is ...
#42216 Book / Non-Cinema
Stapled sheets contain an article describing a dispute over plagiarism in claims over the pantograph, a device for copying, reducing ...
#42502 Book / Non-Cinema
Describes London's popular entertainments: theatre, music hall , circus and pleasure gardens.
#42510 Book / Non-Cinema
A collection of photgraphs of the Exposition, with maps of the site.
#42654 Book / Non-Cinema
A series of essays exploring the whole field of optics. Chapters on the nature of human and animal vision; the ...
#42668 Book / Non-Cinema
Explanation for the general reader of the scientific principles of heat, light and sound, with demonstrations. Topics covered are: heat; ...
#42689 Book / Non-Cinema
Translated from the French, and 'illustrated with seventy engravings on wood, and a coloured frontispiece.' Part 1 has sections on ...
#42694 Book / Non-Cinema
Produced by the Religious Tract Society, it contains a series of meditations on London scenes: St Paul's, the Tower, the ...
#42696 Book / Non-Cinema
Collection of tales in an Irish brogue, with a picture of a peepshow on the front.
#42993 Book / Non-Cinema
A humorous and republican look at the Exposition Universelle, by "Touchatout", with fourteen coloured plates and many black and white ...
#42996 Book / Non-Cinema
Booklet giving a history of the firms founded by Rudolph Ackermann and his descendants, which dealt in paintings and prints, ...
#42831 Book / Non-Cinema
Book uses after-images to give illusion of ghost-figures. Instructions for seeing the illusions, and an explanation of their creation, are ...
#46128 Book / Non-Cinema
Second series. Pages of vignettes for children, each accompanied by a verse; and two longer picture-series, resembling lantern-slides in style. ...
#46130 Book / Non-Cinema
Series of pictures to be used as experiments in persistence of vision, and in complementary colour in after-images, with a ...
#46164 Book / Non-Cinema
Anecdotal account of the performance of many conjuring tricks, with explanations of how to do them. Author was part of ...
#46166 Book / Non-Cinema
Fictionalised account of Davy's life, dedicated to Michael Faraday, and intended to encourage boys in a love of science and ...
#46186 Book / Non-Cinema
Photgraphs of London and its suburbs, with explanatory captions.
#46205 Book / Non-Cinema
Book describes many different kinds of tricks using cards, coins, balls, handkerchiefs; a variety of parlour tricks; plate spinning; chapeaugraphy; ...
#46212 Book / Non-Cinema
Book suggests various forms of entertainment at a semi-professional level, including the one-man show, conjuring, music, feats of dexterity and ...
#45325 Book / Non-Cinema