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• Bandzählung: 29.1885
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1885
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• Vorlage: Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
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November 13, 1885. J THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. 729 W. E. Gladstone has become so identified with railway platform utterances, that photographs of him engaged in delivering an oratorical fragment of this nature ought to sell like wildfire. Two photographers managed to get shots at him during the journey north, but we are not told whether he was in or out of the carriage while the photo graphs were being taken. To be perfect, the portraits of the great statesman should represent him lookingout of the railway carriage window, the frame of which would make an excellent border for the picture. It is to be hoped the fortunate photographers have secured him in this position. W. Jerome Harrison, of Birmingham, has in preparation a “Bibliography of Photography," which will appear iu our pages. He will be pleased to correspond with any persons who may be interested in the subject, or can give information. The sun is not only the photographer’s friend, but it appears that his rays are specially beneficial to the human race, by their deadly effect on those bacterial germs whose agency is now recognised in all contagious diseases. These germs—micrococci and other forms—can bear extremes of heat and cold, and can lie dormant in a dried state for apparently any length of time, yet they are effectually killed by sunlight in a few hours. M. E. Daclaux—a French physician and microscopist who has given special attention to the subject—declares Sunlight the best, most universal, economical, and efficient agent known for public or privatesanitation. His re researches explain why it is so imp rtant for river water to be clear, since the sun’s rays can then penetrate to the depths, and perform their cleansing work. On the same principle we ought to admit the sun freely to our houses, and not strive to prevent his light from entering by means of curtains and blinds, which we often use too continuously. The photographic print-dealers of New York are very hard up just now for novelties in the way of female loveli ness. In one of the principal Broadway shops a great dis play has been made by the revival of a number of photo graphs of Adelaide Neilson. The circumstance stimulating the curiosity of the writer of the New York letter which appears weekly in the Burlington Hawkeye, that gentleman waited upon the shop-keeper, and gleaned from him a number of interesting particulars. “ The fact is,” said the dealer, “ last winter did not bring out a single beautiful new face for the footlights to shine on ; some of the old ones held over well enough for stage purposes, but for photographic beauty they were played out. That is why I have gone back six years to Neilson, for no other face has ever yielded so much profit to the photographer.” We learn, further on, that Miss Neilson was a most assiduous patron of the camera, and that the photographer had only to invite her once to his gallery. She had a collection of over 600 different portraits, and her arrangement with the photographer was not to exact a percentage on the sales, but to stipulate for a free supply in case she liked the pic ture. These she gave away broadcast, and yet always in a manner to impress the recipient that he was a singularly favoured individual. Patent Untelligence. enpomoam Applications for Letters Patent. 13,320. William Henry Crowther, 4, Lyme Grove, Urmston, Manchester, for “Producing stereoscopic pictorial effects by the use of the magic lantern and screen.”—4th November, 1885. 13,463. Arthur GovENTRY, Carlton Chambers, 18, St. Ann’s Street, Manchester, for “ Improvements in apparatus for coating and drying plates for use in photography.”—6th November, 1885. Patents Sealed. 15,198. James Ashford, 179, Aston Hoad, Birmingham, for “ Improvements in stands for photographic cameras and other similar purposes.”—Dated 19th November, 1884. 15,542. Alfred Julius Boult, 323, High Holborn, Middlesex, for “ Improvements in or relating to holders for photographic films.” — Communicated by George Eastman and William Hall Walker, United States.—Dated 25th November, 1884. 13,611. Oliver Imray, 28, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, for “Media for photographic development.”— {Emil Jacobsen, Germany.)—9th November, 1885. Patent on which the Fourth Year’s Renewal Fee of £10 has been Paid. 1881—4896. J. PLESER. “ Photographic emulsions.” Specifications Published during the Week. 16,727. Israel Todd, of North Parade, Otley, in the county of York, Photographer, for “ Improvements in double dark slides for use in cameras for photographic purposes.”—Dated 20th December, 1884. The Patentee says— The object of my invention is to construct dark slides, which are simple in construction, effective, and totally exclude all light. I construct my slide with the edgesand ends of the frame, solid or closed, so as not to admit any light whatever; that por tion of the frame, admitting the sliding shutters, is on one side smaller than the size of plate to be used; the opposite side is sufficiently large to admit the size of plates, for which the slides are constructed, the plates resting on the inside of the smaller shutter frame, and retained in position by projections or adjust able catches, or other suitable means; both plates are inserted in position in the dark slide, through the larger aperture, which is then closed by the larger shutter. Betwixt the plates of glass is inserted a sheet of an opaque substance, with a spring or springs, to press each plate home in the slide. 14,885. John Robert Sawyer, Director of the Autotype Works, Ealing Dene, London, W., for “ Improvements in obtaining photographic printing surfaces.’’—Dated 31st July, 1885. The claims are— 1. The introduction of amorphous-graphite, otherwise known as plumbago, into a compound of gelatine, sugar, and water, in the proportions indicated, for the purpose of coating paper and forming a tissue; this, when made sensitive to the action of light, may be printed under a photographic negative, and a pic ture in relief formed, having by virtue of the graphite employed a grain in proportion to the lights and shades of the negative, and also by virtue of the electrical conducting power of the graphite, be capable of receiving a deposit of copper by means of electrical action. 2. The separating of the graphite into graius of different sizes, which, when introduced into the gelatinous compound, will give the reliefs grain of different sizes to suit the various dimensions and styles of work for which the process may be employed. 10,920. Edward Gardner Colton, of the firm of Popplewell Colton and Co., of Victoria Chambers, Southampton Build ings, in the county of Middlesex, Fellow of the Institute of Patent Agents, for “ Improvements in lenses for optical instru ments,” a communication to him from abroad by Anton Wagner, of Staats Zeitung Building, Tryon Row, in the City,