1857 in animation

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- In 1857, the earliest known illustration of a vertical biunial magic lantern, probably provided by E.G. Wood, appeared in the Horne & Thornthwaite catalogue.^[1] Biunial lanterns, with two projecting optical sets in one apparatus, were produced to more easily project dissolving views.^[2]
- In 1857, the social reformer Florence Nightingale produced "coxcombs" as part of a campaign to improve sanitary conditions in the British Army. It was an early example two-dimensional example of scientific visualization.^[3] This prefigured modern scientific visualization techniques that use computer graphics.^[4]

Births

January

January 4: Émile Cohl, French comics artist, caricaturist and film director (Fantasmagorie), (d. 1938).^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

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Romeyn Beck Hough, American botanist and physician (he sold magic lantern and microscope slides made from the thinnest transverse sections), (d. 1924).^[9]^[10]
George R. Tweedie, English businessman, (he gained fame in 1891 by running a popular magic lantern show, titled "Gossip about Ghosts". The show, which cost sixpence, consisted of fifty slides, each illustrating a story about ghosts or supernatural occurrences), (d. 1937).^[11]^[12]^[13]

References

^ The Magic Lantern Society. Encyclopedia of the Magic Lantern. pp. 21–22
^ The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction. 1842. p. 98.
^ Michael Friendly (2008). "Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization".
^ Thomas G.West (February 1999). "Images and reversals: James Clerk Maxwell, working in wet clay". ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 33 (1): 15–17. doi:10.1145/563666.563671. S2CID 13968486.
^ "Émile Cohl". lambiek.net. Archived from the original on January 18, 2022. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
^ Beckerman, Howard (1 September 2003). Animation: the whole story. Skyhorse Publishing Inc. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-58115-301-9. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
^ Litten, Frederick S. (6 July 2013). "On the earliest (foreign) animation films shown in Japanese cinemas" (PDF). Retrieved 12 September 2013.
^ Donald Crafton; Emile Cohl, Caricature, and Film; Princeton Press; ISBN 0-691-05581-5 (1990)
^ "The American Woods". codex99.com. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
^ US Pat. 335703 Patent application for "Wooden card for business and other purposes". February 9, 1886.
^ "Gossip about ghosts". Slide Readings Library. The Magic Lantern Society. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
^ Page 35, Paranormal Media: Audiences, Spirits and Magic in Popular Culture, Author: Annette Hill, Publisher: Routledge, 2010, ISBN 9781136863189, ...One public lecture titled 'Gossip about Ghost' by former chemist George Tweedie claimed 'spook hunting has recently become as fashionable as Slumming'...
^ Page 220, The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science; with which is Incorporated the "Chemical Gazette.": A Journal of Practical Chemistry in All Its Applications to Pharmacy, Arts and Manufactures, Volume 37, Contributor: William Crookes, Publisher:Chemical news office, 1878, ...A process for coating iron with magnetic oxide by the action of heated air. By George R. Tweedie...

Sources

[The_Magic_Lantern_Society_pp._21–22-1] The Magic Lantern Society. Encyclopedia of the Magic Lantern. pp. 21–22

[Mirror1842-2] The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction. 1842. p. 98.

[MF08-3] Michael Friendly (2008). "Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization".

[4] Thomas G.West (February 1999). "Images and reversals: James Clerk Maxwell, working in wet clay". ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 33 (1): 15–17. doi:10.1145/563666.563671. S2CID 13968486.

[5] "Émile Cohl". lambiek.net. Archived from the original on January 18, 2022. Retrieved January 20, 2021.

[Beckerman2003-6] Beckerman, Howard (1 September 2003). Animation: the whole story. Skyhorse Publishing Inc. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-58115-301-9. Retrieved 16 August 2011.

[7] Litten, Frederick S. (6 July 2013). "On the earliest (foreign) animation films shown in Japanese cinemas" (PDF). Retrieved 12 September 2013.

[8] Donald Crafton; Emile Cohl, Caricature, and Film; Princeton Press; ISBN 0-691-05581-5 (1990)

[codex-9] "The American Woods". codex99.com. Retrieved 18 September 2024.

[10] US Pat. 335703 Patent application for "Wooden card for business and other purposes". February 9, 1886.

[11] "Gossip about ghosts". Slide Readings Library. The Magic Lantern Society. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2011.

[12] Page 35, Paranormal Media: Audiences, Spirits and Magic in Popular Culture, Author: Annette Hill, Publisher: Routledge, 2010, ISBN 9781136863189, ...One public lecture titled 'Gossip about Ghost' by former chemist George Tweedie claimed 'spook hunting has recently become as fashionable as Slumming'...

[13] Page 220, The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science; with which is Incorporated the "Chemical Gazette.": A Journal of Practical Chemistry in All Its Applications to Pharmacy, Arts and Manufactures, Volume 37, Contributor: William Crookes, Publisher:Chemical news office, 1878, ...A process for coating iron with magnetic oxide by the action of heated air. By George R. Tweedie...

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