The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-24
Instantaneous Photography.

A patent has just been issued for
camera which is interesting and exeit-
ing photographers, amateur and pro-
fessional, and detectives, says the New
York Sun 1t is based upon the dry
process system, that is of gclatino-
bromide sensitive plates on which
photographs can be readily made in
simultaneously.
These plates are in continuous roll,
admitting of hundred negatives. As
soon as the number is complete the
operator, providing he desires to do so,
may send the roll, Theoretically sealed,
to the manufacturers for development,
or he may. providing he is advanced
enough in the art, do the work him.
self.
This novel apparatus is only62 inch
es long, 81 inches wide, and 81 inches
high, and weighs less than two pounds.
1t can be carried in mans ovcrcoat
pocket in winter or in his travelling
bag in summer and is ready for use at
anv moment. Each picture, when de-
velopcd, will be found to be . inches
in diameter. In the front portion OF
| the camera is the shutter and lens,
/ both very unique in their construction.
/ The shutter is cylindrical, having two
| apertures, diametrically opposite each
! other, aud it rotatcs around two ends
! of the lens continuously i'll one dlrec-
! ton. The shutter is propelled by a
coiled flat spiral spring, located in one
! end OF it, which is wound up by an
adjacent ratchet disk wheel, this being
in turn operated through miniature
! pawls by Il winding barrel. The latter
is rotated by pulling up on the cord
which passes through the outer case
of the camera. Each Instruments adj
iusted to standard focus when made,
and while operating the operator has
every object beyond three feet within
the focus, even to the extreme dist
ance. In operating all the holder ha:
to do is to remove the cap from th'
lens, hold the camera steadily aimee
Mt the object desired and press the
trigger pin on the side OF the camera
with the thumb of the left hand
Thereupon the shutter rcvolyes an'
the exposure is made. BY turning tn
kew on top one complete revoluuol
the exposed film is wound off and
new film put in its place ready 10
another exposure.
Naval officers are delighted with III,
new eieht-inch ritled gun on th'
Boston. This gun is u howler, ant
can throw large proiectile nin
miles rs easy as winking. The charg
for this gun is l25 pounds of powder
and the government orders it to b'
fired for practice five times every thre
months. No iewelry in woman
. casket is kept more beautifully brigh
than this gun. 1t is cleaned so care
fully that not speck would be left ol
, n lace handkerchief If passed throug
, il from breeeh to muZzle, says tn
, New York San. and nothing less tina
the purest glycerino is used in tn
automatic cleaning process. 1t
screwed not only through the gun deck
but through the orlop deck as wei
Cor one discharge from its might
. jaws would tear single deck all t
pieces. 1t has an engine of its ow
=, | down in the bowels of the ship to tur
it on its pivot. 1t stands to-day Il
the equal, If not the superior, of an
, piece of naval ordnance in the worl,
There are other riiled guns on th
! Boston that have range of six mile
: three miles and half, and three mile:
7 aud some little guns worked like II
: old-fashioned colfee-mll that ca
; make things hot at y mile and hal
But when the cight-inch ritled gun b'
gins To shoot she does not need
shoot very often, rs she can make
, biz hole in l6-inch armor platin
! nine miles away, and the armor-pla
= ing would probably roll up itself ii Il
= gun got any closer.