Word: stereopticons
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...life. Running for Congress in 1902, Publisher Hearst, as President of the National Association of Democratic Clubs, arranged a monster pyrotechnical display on election night to celebrate the victory which he and Tammany expected and won. Thousands jammed into Madison Square to see his well-publicized show. On a stereopticon screen flashed a photograph of Congressman-elect Hearst while rockets screamed and zoomed. A spark set off a defective mortar which blew up, felled scores with scraps of flying steel. Next morning Hearst's American buried news of the disaster on page five, made no mention of its publisher...
...Astronomer Harlow Shapley never tires of trooping up & down the country telling people about the universe. Last week some 200 sky-lovers gathered at Detroit's Institute of Arts to hear tousle-haired Dr. Shapley discourse on "Exploring the Galaxy." This talk was to be illustrated with stereopticon slides. Few minutes before lecture time a man from the projection room scuttled up to the platform, confessed to the astronomer that the slides had been mislaid. Squirming and damp-browed. Dr. Shapley whispered hoarsely to the man who was about to introduce...
...Carl Zeiss Optical Works at Jena. This consists of two lens-studded globes mounted on each end of a cylindrical frame eleven feet long, is shaped like a huge dumbbell, looks like the grotesque plaything of an ogre. In effect the machine is simply an extremely versatile stereopticon. It shows the stars visible to the naked eye from anywhere on Earth, about 4,500 from any one spot; the sun, the moon and its phases, the planets, variable stars, comets, meteors, the Milky Way. It can rehearse a 24-hour maneuver of the celestial bodies in a few minutes...
Lecturing in Brooklyn's Institute of Arts & Sciences, Wallace Havelock Robb, poet and ornithologist of Ontario, who likes to call himself "the St. Francis of Canada, the poet of birdland," showed stereopticon pictures of his conquests over birds. Of a mother plover with her brood of four sitting on his hand, he said: "There is perfect faith there. Don't ask me how I do it. I don't know, and I can't explain. In my sanctuary all the birds . . . know me now, but that plover didn't know me. She just trusted...
...blowing on the cold ashes of the oldtime mining boom town. In the centre of Central City (year-round population: 300) is the massive stone Opera House where once Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson and Rose Coghlan played to rowdy frontier audiences, and where the Passion Play was given in stereopticon pictures. The contractor Brothers McFarlane built it in 1878 on the site of a horse corral. When the mining boom spread away to west & south, mountain rats took Central City over. Rain streaked the Rhenish landscape on the Opera House curtain and the gaudy murals done by a forgotten painter...