The Red Cloud chief., 1896-07-31

crude work. But the news that every
obstacle had been overcome and that a
great corporation had been formed to
develop The invention was hailed as the
greatest advance step in the art since
Dagllerrc first succeeded in making hIs
primitive pictures.
rs for tho hackers of the patent
the men who for years have contrlbut-
ed tho capital for experiment-they
were well-night swamped with inquiry.
Spencer u. Schuyler, whose office is at
Is wall street, was directly asked to
dcny that such "A process was possible.
II he could t%ruthfully. He remarked
that he'a like to, for the company was
not ready to make things public, but
t!at lie could not. He yielded to per
suas'on n exhibited some results of
the process. All were transparencies.
alive with the cOlors of nature.
one was the portrait of the inventor.
showing the purple flower in the but
toEhcl' of his coat. the peculiar reddish
shade of the neCktie and the delicate
flesh tints of the face. In fact, the
photograph looked exactly like the
colored image focused on the ground
glass slide of a camera.
Another picture was a street scene,
showing the green trees that lined the
sidewalk, the red bricks of the houses.
and the purplish shingles on the roof.
A third, and the most delicate of all.
was the full-length portrait of a young
woman Cnltn1 M n tnIIn T. H. -
she held a playing card, the queen OF
spades and the table was spread with
a Turkish cover of vari-colored and
complicated design.
Every shade of the table cover. every
little color detail of the PLAYING card.
the flesh tints of her face, the color
OF her eyes and hair, the wall paper.
everything was faithfully reproduced.
n person of acute vision can lust
detect the faint lines, 300 to the inch.
each one containing all the colors in
the spectrum. These lines do not mar
the picture; on the contrary, they give
the artistic effect achieved by the use
or rough paper. Experiments are now
making TO rule these lines oven closer.
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give pleasing effects, too.
h keynote of the progress lies In
the ruled screen of cclluloid, which
10 the naked eye appears perfectly
Whitc. Ruled papers for positives show
the same white effect. But under tho
microscope each one of those 900 iinca
Is seen TO be n spectrum. Now when
q picture Is taken through this trans
parent screen on an orthoChromatic
plate, which gives the relative color
value" in black and white. a negative
Is obtained with all the fine lines across
1t. y positive Is then made in the or.
binary way, Then, if the color screen
ana positive are placed together the
picture appears in all the original
ColorS for the reason that the or.ho.
chroihatlc positive cuts off every color
save the II that should show.
Tha capabilities of such a process
have often been pointed out. They.
are apparently limitless. ANY number
OF pictures may be made from one nor-
ativC.
The process may be used for por-
traits, in commercial photography TO
snow patterns and colors OF CARPETS
rugs, china, wall paper, furniture. ana
the like, in landscape work, for lantern
slides, to make fac-similes of oil paint
inGs, and in general scientific work.
every obstacle" said Mr.. SCHUYLER,
has now been overcome. A plant viii
soon be in operation and then the cor
poration will be able to put into prac-
teal rsc the fruits of the inventors
years of toll"