Recently, we've heard an awful lot about something called Magic Lantern, although generally as a piece of software, not in reference to the historical projection device. The original Magic Lantern – ...

The Magic Lantern museum is the world’s only repository of the earliest projectors I’m not sure what I was looking up on the internet when I found it. With a name like a Disney theme-park ride, the ...

One thing you probably won’t ever find at a shopping mall toy store is a child-sized digital projector. A toy cell phone - perhaps - but no child wants to rush home from daycare to play “PowerPoint.” ...

More commonly known as "magic lanterns," these projectors were the ancestors of the motion picture projector, the 35mm slide projector, filmstrips, and even the PowerPoint presentation. Using lenses ...

Our display of pre-cinema optical devices will be on view in the second floor cases of Rare Books and Special Collections in Firestone Library for two more months. Included is this nineteenth-century ...

A double magic lantern projector that's been converted from oil to electric lamps. The dual projector allows for one slide to be shown while another is changed. Printed on front and sides: "Benj. Pike ...