Word: stereopticon
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...modest Edward Weston to the $1.000 which didactic Alfred Stieglitz thought his prints were worth. Many critics paused longer in the first part of the exhibition which really at tempted to show the development of photography in the U. S. Here were some stiff and dingy daguerreotypes, some stereopticon pictures from old Bowery peep prints," and shows, in old particular a theatrical few prints by "cabinet a man who could hold his head up with any Photosecessionist, whose prints were not only of considerable artistic merit but invaluable historic documents: Brady, the Civil War photographer. Mathew B. Brady...
...impulses on radio carrier waves, worked out on the principle already perfected in wired telephony. In the future, orchestras may play for many microphones, scattered through the studio or auditorium to best acoustical advantage. The sum of the sounds they pick up should compare to present radio as a stereopticon view compares to a snapshot...
Died. Alpheus George Barnes Stonehouse (Al G. Barnes), 68, circusman, founder and longtime owner of Barnes's Circus; after a lingering illness; in Indio, Calif. He started his show in 1895 with a pony, a phonograph, a stereopticon. A colorful participant at every performance, he would lead the opening parade seated on the head of a mammoth elephant. Two years ago he sold his interests to Circusman John Ringling...
...lecture entitled "How the British Q Boats Fought the German Submarines" and illustrated by stereopticon slides, Campbell will give a vivid description of the most ingenious of the methods employed by the British Admiralty to combat the submarine menace. The Q boats, merchant vessels armed with concealed guns and making every effort to be torpedoed, decoyed twelve German submarines to destruction. As commander of the first of these novel units in the British Navy and later of several others. Admiral Campbell accounted for four of the enemy's deadly underwater crafts, which in April 1917 were so depleting British tonnage...
There will be stereopticon lectures and observations through telescopes...