Definition of Graphoscope. Meaning of Graphoscope. Synonyms of Graphoscope

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Definition of Graphoscope

Graphoscope
Graphoscope Graph"o*scope, n. [Gr. gra`fein to write + -scope.] An optical device for showing (or photographing) an image when projected upon the atmosphere as a screen.
Graphoscope
Graphoscope Graph"o*scope, n. [Gr. gra`fein to write + -scope.] An optical instrument for magnifying engravings, photographs, etc., usually having one large lens and two smaller ones.

Meaning of Graphoscope from wikipedia

- A graphoscope was a 19th-century device used in parlors in order to enhance the viewing of photographs and text. The graphoscope is supposed to be based...
- Convex lens for fire making Dome magnifier Gl****es – Form of vision aid Graphoscope – 19th-century magnifying device Macro photography – Photography genre...
- were designed by Carlo Ponti of Venice before 1862. Lke the similar graphoscope which descends from the eighteenth century zograscope predating photography...
- Cosmoscope, Knight's Cosmorama, Ponti's Megalethoscope (1862), Rousell's Graphoscope (1864), Wheatstone's stereoscope (1832), and dead Viewmaster knockoffs...
- viewed. Devices containing only the lens are sometimes referred to as graphoscopes. Other models have the lens mounted on a stand in front of an angled...
- March 1802 – 28 January 1882), an accountant who may have patented the Graphoscope and certainly patented improvements to it. Her mother was Sarah Lewis...