The Magic Lantern and its Management: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Magic Lantern and its Management, credited to T. C. Hepworth, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Magic Lantern and its Management by T. C. Hepworth. Read in English by James R. Hedrick. There is no optical instrument so well known or so highly held in popular estimation as the Magic Lantern. It is somewhat unfortunate that its old appellation, given to it when it was nothing more than a mere toy, should have stuck to it so long. And more than one attempt has been made by those conversant with its capabilities as a scientific instrument, and as an important aid to education, to give it a name more consistent with its real value. - Summary by the author

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Magic Lantern and its Management
• Author credits: T. C. Hepworth
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 1:50:55

Catalogue topics

• lantern projection
• lantern slides

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 2:08
2. 01 - The History of the Magic Lantern — 16:29
3. 02 - The Lime Light — 6:55
4. 03 - Dissolving Views — 8:47
5. 04 - Making Oxygen Gas — 15:22
6. 05 - The Screen or Sheet — 5:37
7. 06 - Pictures for the Lantern — 8:05
8. 07 - On The Colouring of Photographic Transparencies — 19:02
9. 08 - Showing Solid & Opaque Objects on the Lantern Screen — 8:08
10. 09 - The Lantern Microscope — 6:52
11. 10 - Mechanical or Moving-Pictures — 4:58
12. 11 - Concluding Remarks — 8:32

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