Patent Model - Stereoscopic Apparatus
Maker and role
Thomas Roche (b.Circa 1826, d.1895), Patentee
Production date
Dec 20 1859
Object detail
Media/Materials
Mixed woods, brass, iron, glass, textile, paper
Measurements
11 5/16 x 9 3/4 x 12" (28.7 x 24.8 x 30.5cm)
Description
Roche's invention "consists, first, in the employment of a skeleton-wheel for the purpose of bringing the pictures, one after the other, before the eyeglasses, whereby trasparent pictures can be exhibited as well as paper pictures; second, in a particular arrangement of the pictures in such a manner that two pictures are always placed back to back, and that one is upright when the other is upside down, the whole number being connected by tapes into a chain, whereby double the number of pictures can be exhibited from the same eyeglasses by simply shifting the pictures from one side of the box to the other...; third, in arranging a door near to the bottom of the box for the purpose of facilitating a change of the pictures, in combination with a sliding partition, so that the whole pile of pictures can be shifted from one side of the box to the other without disturbing their relative position toward each other." (Patent Number 26,525)
Collection
Object number
2015.14.305a-i
Maker
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