The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-08

tanical gardens at Bronx Park In order TO show
the entire growth OF lily on the screen IN one
series, the biograph cameras and the growing
bulb will be arranged In position in this room
and picture will be taken every hair hour con-
tinually for about thirty days and nights. In or
der to get uniform light for every VIEW aIth-
cial illumination will be employed. Something
like a thousand pictures Will be made or one
subject, the final picture showing the opening OF
the lily. and then its fading away. Though such
results have previously been obtained they w
not taken with the necessary uniformity
light. This work will be under the direction or
T. :. McGregor, curator Of the gardens. Expert
ments OF this kind. too. are being made TO show
ropidly the changes in scenery from winter 10
Summer. etc.
The experiments of illumination. the celebrated
French astronomer. show the possibilities OF the
hiegraph for recording astronomical wonders. lie
has taken moving pictures which show moonrise.
the milky way. lightning. shooting stars sunrise
and sunset. ProfessorS Of astronomy In Columbia
College also realize the possibilities of the inven-
tion in their work. and experimenters are inn
proving extremely sensitive films necessary to
take impressions of the weak astronomical rays
OF light. IL is particularly the phenomena OF the
heavens seen at intervals Of many years-a
strange eclipse, transit, or meteOrlc shower
which men travel far to observe. and which as
tronomers hone to preserve in Photographic er-
fects. making il possible for those at home TO
observe the heavenly wonders that few now have
the opportunity Of seeing.
Ard as the microscope has been combined with
the biograph so also the astronomers tee-
SCOPE lenses are being combined, So that We may
see distant movements invisible 20 the naked
eye Many Of the moving pictures OF naval ac-
tons which naturally could not have been taken
at close range. have resulted from the telescope
attachment.
Capt John Finley an expert on tornadoes. now
in the American meteorological service. has
taken some remarkable moving pictures OF light
ming storms. and expects 10 get some pictures
of the approach OF Kansas tornado.
Another new and novel exhibit is brilliant
display of fireworks, taken at night. While II
has hitherto been impossible to photograph fire.
works. by the use of magnesium powder the bio
graph has faithfully recorded the shower and
pinwhee effects Of the most costly pieces made
adventurous EllrODe devised
idea of taking pictures from the bottom OF the
OF balloon in motion. AS IL assembled rap
idly. successive pictures were taken straight
downward showing the spectators, then the sur
rounding houses and trees, then roofs and coun-
try fading rapidly. until all that could be seen
dark patches the earth.
The biograph camera was made to perform
another remarkable feat Placed on the top Of a
Brooklyn bride tower one clear day IL was turned
so as to take pictures in every direction Of the
compass. covering fifteen miles in every direction.
In the few moments IL takes 10 show these pic
lures on the the spectators a piano.
rama covering something like five hundred square
miles