Stereoscope
['sterɪə(ʊ)skəʊp;'stɪə-] or ['stɪərɪoskop]
Definition
(noun.) an optical device for viewing stereoscopic photographs.
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Definition
(n.) An optical instrument for giving to pictures the appearance of solid forms, as seen in nature. It combines in one, through a bending of the rays of light, two pictures, taken for the purpose from points of view a little way apart. It is furnished with two eyeglasses, and by refraction or reflection the pictures are superimposed, so as to appear as one to the observer.
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Definition
n. an instrument in which each of two pictures is examined by a separate lens and the two lenses are inclined so as to shift the images towards one another and thus to ensure or to facilitate the blending of the two images into one standing out in relief with solidity.—adjs. Sterēoscop′ic -al pertaining to the stereoscope.—adv. Sterēoscop′ically.—ns. Stē′rēoscopist; Sterēos′copy.
Typist: Lucinda
Examples
- The principle of the Stereoscope depends on the different appearance which near objects present when seen by the right or by the left eye. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Sir David Brewster has suggested various applications of the Stereoscope; viz. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In spite, however, of the physical disabilities of scientists, the stereoscope finally made its way in France. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the 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.
- One of the most beautiful as well as the most remarkable pictorial illusions is produced by the combination of two views into one by the recently invented instrument called the Stereoscope. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In some respects this process seems almost more wonderful than the original Stereoscope, for it gives solid form and apparent substantiality to the mere creations of the artist's pencil. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- 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.
- The same journal in its issue of April 1, 1896, shows an Edison fluoroscope in use by an observer, in the now familiar and universal form somewhat like a stereoscope. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Priscilla