Brewster
['brʊstɚ]
Examples
- It is in the foregoing manner that the remarkable stereoscopic effect of Sir David Brewster's ghost is produced, a representation of which is given in the next page. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The Kaleidoscope invented by Sir David Brewster. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Sir David Brewster has suggested various applications of the Stereoscope; viz. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- But this instrument was so different in its construction, and in the effects it produced, from the Kaleidoscope, that Sir David Brewster's claim to be the inventor may be freely admitted. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It is almost unnecessary to describe the external appearance of the lenticular instrument invented by Sir David Brewster, and explained by him at the meeting of the British Association in 1849. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The Kaleidoscope was invented by Sir David Brewster in 1814, and British patent No. 4,136 granted him July 10, 1817, for the same. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The reflecting stereoscope was invented by Wheatstone in 1838, and the lenticular form, as now generally used, was invented by Sir David Brewster in the year 1849. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But Sir Charles Wheaton in 1838 constructed the first instrument, and in 1849 Brewster introduced the present form of lenticular lenses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Mr. Elliot's contrivance, to which Sir David Brewster is inclined to give precedence in point of date, was very inferior in its effects to the reflecting Stereoscope. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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