The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-05
MICROSCOPES ADVANCE.
VOWEL AND INTERESTING USES To
WHICH IT IS BEING PUT.

Gardens to show the Life of Flow
crs-Pictures Taken of Fireworks.
Tses of the Invention in Hospitals
and BY AstronOmers-MOving Piss
tures That Have Proved COnbnc-
ing Evidenccs-Magtca Effects
Produced in Paris-ExpIOit of an
Operator.
New York Nov S.-Already an institu-
tion I'm recording for both present and flu
lure the notable scenes and occurrences of
the world kaleidoscope or moving pictures
are becoming useful for scientific as well
as for amusement purposes.
In hospitals, particularly, the invention
Is finding wide application. One hospital
in New York is now adopting a machine
to record minutely the actions of patients
in eplleptic fits and similar affections. and
many moving pictures have been taken
showing the movements in walking of per-
sons afflicted with locomotia ataxia. Re-
PRODUCED a number of times, slowly. on
The screen, doctors are enabled to study
their symptoms more carefully in their
laboratories. And the pictures taken in
ed by famous surgeons, become valuable
instructors to medical students. 1t is al
so in hospital work that this invention
with the microscope attachment, or micro
kinetoscope, is finding the greatest prac-
teal use. The movements Of all kinds of
microbes when thus photographed make
striking animated pictures, which mean
good deal to the practitioner, and the &C
tons of healthy and diseased corpuscles
are easily distinguished when thrown upon
the screen and magnified thousands of
times Such pictures of diseased blood,
taken from time TO time, show the inn
proyement or decline in patients condi-
tons DR.. Robert L. Watson was one OF
the first to discover many strange phe-
nomena in the action of live blood cor
pusces in this way.
Ii has just been found by one of the
leading experimenters that X-ray photog-
raphy, now so valuable in hospitals, may
be wonderfully developed by the use OF
the biograph camera, as it is equally pos
sible TO take moving pictures with the pen
etrating light. He believes there is no
function Of the human body which may
uot be shown in action by such pictures,
even to the beating of the heart and blood
circulation; affording great possibilities
for new researches in philosophy.
Many of the animated pictures that are
exhibited now for their beauty alone, will
likely be useful in school instruction and
lecture work, but the difficulty, so far,
as was the case with the early develop
ment Of the photograph, is that these ma
chimes are reserved for exclusive prices
and will only be brought within the reach
Of public instructors as their possibilities
and Improvements bring great demand for
them.
Recording the Growth of Flowers.
One of the novel subjects that Will soon
he put on exhibition will show infinitely
the growth and Towering of plants from
the time Of planting until in full bloom.
To obtain such results as these a special
room is being set aside for the new boz
tanical gardens at Bronx Park, n. Y. In
order to show the entire growth of a lily
on The screen in one series, the biograph
cameras and the growing bulb viii be ar
ranged in position in this room and pic
ture will be taken every half hour con-
unualy for about thirty days and nights.
In order to get a uniform light for every
View, artificial illumination will be en-
ployed. Something like a thousand will
therefore be made of one subject, and final
pictures showing the opening OF the lily,
and then its fading away. Though such
results have previously been obtained,
they were not taken with the necessary
uniformity of light. This work will be I'M
L.
aior of the gardens Experiments of this
knd, too are being made to show rapidly
the changes in scenery from winter to
sumner. etc.
The experiments of VI. Flammarion, the
celebrated French astronomer show the
possibilities of the biograph for recording
astronomical wonders. He has taken NOV
ing pictures which show moonrise, the
milky way, lightning. shooting stars, sun
rise and sunset. Professors of astronomy
~ columbia College also realize the posi-
oHlIes OF the invention in their work.
ana experiments are improving extremely
sensitive films necessary to take impress
SONS of the weak astronomical rays of
HsAt It is particularly the phenomena
VI 'he heavens seen at intervals of many
Aeafs-a strange eclipse, transit or mete-
ere shoWer-which men travel far to OBJ
serve which astronomers hope to preserve
III Photographic effects making it possible
-oI nose at home to observe the heavenly
wonders that few now have the opportu-
hjF OF seeing.
ana as the microscope has been 'combin-
"a with The biosraph, so also the astron-
Ui0ef telescope lenses are being combln-
S1' so mat we may see distant movements
Invisible to the naked eye. Many of the
'''iHs pictures of naval actions which 1
n,llafa'ly could not have been taken at
CoSe range. have resulted from the tee-
o0o'ie attachment
capt. John Finley, the expert on lorna
49, now in the American Meteorological
''ee' mas taken some remarkable NOV
m pictures of lightning storms, and ex-
Se1's TO get some striking PICTURES of the
'HN oach of Kansas tornado.
h1,olher new end move. exhibit is a
riulant display Of fireworks, taken al
si'-Hl' While # has hitherto been impos-
81 9'e to photograph fireworks, by the use
Hdgnesium powder the biograph has
a. H.
~ effects Of the most costly pieces
~" 3dventurous operator in Europe de-
~ me idea of taking pictures from Inc
'oih OF the car Of a balloon in motion.
IT, " assembled rapidly, successive pic, !
So were taken straight downward
.r. wing the spectators, then the surround
,-,. louses and trees, then roofs and coun- !
'dolng rapidly until all that could DE |
were dark patches on the earth.
,Vsraph cameras was made 20 perform
g. ner remarkable feat. Placed. as |
,o,,"n' on the top of Brooklyn bridge |