The Portland daily press., 1899-11-08
New York'Sun. }

Already an Institution In recording the
notable scenes and occurrences OF the
world kinetoscupe or moving pictures ars
becoming useful for scientific a. we'll %
for amusement purposes. In hospitals,
particularly. the invention is finding ap-
piioation. One hospital In New York 10
now adapting a machine to record
mia utsly this actions OF patients 10 cpl
lsptic ITS and similar affections. and
many moving pictures have been taken
showing this movements In walking Of
persons IN lotsd from looomotor ataxia.
Reproduced slowly, on the screen, doc
more carefully Ia their laboratories.
And the pictures taken In Vienna, show
ing operations being performs By ia
nous surgeons, become valuable instruc-
tors to sdiosl ct ldsnts. IL 10 also In
hospital work that this invention with
the microscope attachment. or micro
kinstosoope, IL finding the greats St prao-
tioal use The movement Of all kinds Of
microbes when thus photographed make
striking animated pictures. and the 40
lions of healthy and diseased oorpuscles
are easily distinguished when thrown
upon the sure IN and inAgnined thousands
Of times. Such pictures Of diseased
blood, taken from time to time. show
the improvement or decline In the con-
dition Of patients.
1t has Just been found bye one expert
msnt that X-ray photography, now 90
valuable in hospitals. may be wonder
FUZZY developed BY the use Of the biosraph
camera, ss is IL equally possible to take
moving pictures with the penetrating
light. He believes there is no function
Of the human body which may not be
shown In action BY such pictures, even
to the beating Of the heart and blood
circulation.
Many Of the animated pictures that are
exhibited now for their beauty alone.
will likely be useful In school instruo-
ton and lecture work, but the difficulty.
90 far, % Wa the case with the early
these mAohipes are held at high prices.
and will only be brought within the
reach of pub lio In ssructors as their pos
sibilities and Improvements bring great
demand for them.
One Of the novel subjects that viii
minutsly the growth and Towering OF
plants FROM the time OF planting until
In full bloom. 10 obtain such results as
these . SPECIAL room 10 set aside In the
new Botanical Gardens ut bronx Pork.
In order to show the entire growth OF
lily on the screen in one s,riss,s the
biosrAph cameras and the growing bulb
will be arr Angsd In position In this room
and Q picture will be taken every half
hour continually for about thirty days
and nights In order to ges uniform
light for every view. artificial tilumina-
Thousand pictures will bs made Of one
subject, the Ansl picture showing the
opening Of the lily, and then Its fading
away. Though suoh results bavs previ-
ously been obtained, they wers not taken
with the necessary uniformity Of light
T. s. Mo6rsgor. Curator Of the Gardens.
Experiments Of this kind. too. are being
made to show raridly the changes In
scenery from winter to summer. etc.
The experiments OF FlAmmarion, the
celebrated French astronomer, show the
astronomical wonders. He has taken
moving pictures which show noonrise,
the Milky Way. lightning, sh ootins stars,
sunrtse and sunset. Professors OF as.
tronony in Columbia College also realixs
the possibilities Of the invention In their
work. and experimentsrs are Improving
extremely sensitive films necessary to
take imprs lions Of the weak astronomi-
cal rays OF lisht. 1t 10 particularly the
phenomena of the heavens seen at inter
walls Of many years-a strange eciipse,
transit, metsorio shower-whtch men
travel far to observe, and which astron.
omers hope to pressrvs In photographic
effects, inak ing 10 possible for those at
home to o, ssrve the heavenly wonders
that few now have the opportunity Of
seeing.
And ~ the microscope has been com
bined with the biograph, 90 also the as
tronomsr's telescopic lenses are being
movement invisible to the naked eye.
Many OF the moving pictures OF naval so-
tiors, which naturally could not have
been taken at Gloss range. have resulted
from the telescope attachment.
Capt. John Finley, an expert on tor
logical service, has taken some remark
able moving pictures Of lightning storms,
and expects TO get some pictures OF tho
approach Of . Kansas tornado.
Another new and novel exhibit is
brilliant display OF fireworks. taken at
night. while IL has hitherto been im.
possibl to photograph fireworks, by the
use OF masnssiunm powder the biograph
has faithfully recorded the shower and
pinw heal effects OF the NEST costly pieces
iuAde.
An adventurous operator In Europe de-
vissd the idea OF taking pictures from
the bottom Of the car Of q ballot n In mo-
ton. As 1t ascsnded rapidly, successive
pictures were taken straight downward
showing the spectators, then the sur
rounding houses and trees, then roofs
and country. fading rapidly, until all
that could be seen were dark patches on
tbs earth.
The biograph camera was made 70
perform another remar kabls feat. Placed
on the top Of a Brooklyn bridge tower
ons 81 .ar day 10 was turned SO as 10 take
pictures in every direction OF the com-
rass, covering tftsen miles In every di
rsctton. In the few moments 1t taxes
to show these pictures on his screen the
sreotators see . panorama covering some
thing Ike i've hundred square miles.