The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-06-22

SAeil sc wall lIillSler HIS pttSe VI opeia-
tons to Cuban soil at intervals, the
ship osclllating continually to and fro
between the island and various ports
of the United States. He confidently
expects to get some biograph views Of
land possibly of those in
cidental to the siege of Havana-an
his hope is that he may obtain Vita
scope series of glimpses Of naval
fight off-shore. What a marvel, in
deed, would be a moving photograph of
duel between two warships, merican
and Spanish, terminating, of course, in
the destruction of the enemy's vessel,
exhibited on a stereonticon screen be-
fore wildly enthusiastic audiences from
Boston to San rancisco
The apparatus furnished by the war
department for this Photographic en-
terprise will be of very elaborate and
costly description, including cameras Of
huge size which afford accommodation
for dryplates three feet square In adj
dition there will be photographic
appliances for taking pictures of micro
scopic objects on a scale enormously
enlarged. This is the most difficult of
all branches of photography, and will
be employed for making photo-micro-
graphs of injured and diseased tissues,
and of the various germs that do their
best to aggravate wounds and to pro-
pagate maladies among soldiers. A
photo photographic machine is simply
described as a combination of a micro
scope with a camera; the light rays
proceed from an object through mi
croscope before entering the camera
and striking the sensitized plate.
Hence the vast enlargement of the OBJ
ject.
This is the first really scientific con-
f1ict that has ever been waged in the
history of warfare. The velocity of
projectiles, the resisting power of ar
NOR and the expansion Of gases liberia
ted by explosives are calculated to a
dot. Likewise the rate of multiplied
ton for every species of germs t hat
threaten soldiers in camp and hospital
is definitely known and methods of
fighting them are as thoroughly organ
ICED as the defensive tactics employed
against the human enemy. Most of all
this knowledge is so much in favor of
the Americans, inasmuch as the SpSan-
iards disdain it; so far as disease is
concerned, they prefer to rot, with hon
or.
One of the most important parts of
the photographers equipment on board
of the ambulance ship will not be
strictly Photographic, though related
thereto. 1t will be an X-ray apparatus
for taking ''shadowgraphs" by mean
of Rontgen rays. Necessarily, there
will be many bones fractured by Span
ish bullets, and in such cases accurate
observations of the injuries inflicted
will be of accurate observations of the
injuries inflicted will be OF the utmost
value. The Spaniards are armed with
modern rifles of the Mauser make, and
projectiles from these weapons at near
ranges produce explosive effects,
smashing bones to splinters. Amputa-
lions, therefore, are likely to be fire.
auently demanded; but it will often be
possible to save limb by definite
knowledge of the exact character and
extent of the injury, such as could only
be secured by making a shadowgraph
of the part. Unquestionably during
the civil war a great many legs and
arms were sacrificed by hasty surgery.
The expert who has been chosen for
the work herein described will have a
varied field of usefulness, owing to his
many technical accomplishments. He
will rig his own X-ray apparatus, con-
struct the photo-microscopfc machine
prepare cultures" of any disease mi
crobes that may make their unwelcome
appearance, fix up his own vitascope
paraphernalia, and generate his own
electricity, requiring for this last pur-
pose only few pounds of coal per
diem. The electricity, Of course, is
needed for producing the Rontgen rays,
as well as for the cameras that record
the moving pictures. To print his pho
tographs he will want merely conven-
lent space on the upper deck. The sur
gical operating room will be well light
ed by skylights, so as to be most ser
viceable for Photographic work.
The most interesting contribution to
the outfit of the floating studio will be
one of the new-fangled contrivances
for taking pictures at great distances.
This is called "telephotographo-
scope" and is an application of the
principle of the telescope to photo
graphy. BY means of the telescope, of
course, a distant object is brought near
that is to say, it's apparent distance
is made less. Now, the human eye is
simply little camera, and the nerve
screen at the back of it corresponds to
sensitive plate. If, then, an ordinary
Photographic camera be substituted for
-. {11o
scope, it Is obvious that the sensitive
plate will receive an impression as of
an object at a greatly diminished dis
lance BY the help Of this apparatus
the expert in charge hopes to secure
satisfactory views Of one or more bat
ties at sea- or possibly of the storming
of Havana.
With the aid of the telephotographo-
scope fight between ships at sea ten
miles off could be brought within ar