Organisation: W.C. Hughes, lantern and slide dealer

Organisation history Slide manufacture Slide sale/hire stock Lantern hardware Texts published Advertisements

Lantern hardware manufactured or sold (current known total 13 items)

Item name or title

Type of hardware

Date of first manufacture

Bi-cylindrical lantern (biunial lantern, W.C. Hughes, 1875)

Biunial lantern

1875

'Circulatory Pamphengos' lantern (standard single lantern, W.C. Hughes, n.d.)

Standard single lantern

unknown

'Combination Scientist' lantern (scientific demonstration lantern, W.C. Hughes, n.d.)

Scientific demonstration lantern

unknown

'Docwra' triple lantern (triunial or triple lantern, W.C. Hughes, 1888)

Triunial or triple lantern

1888

'Grand' triple lantern (triunial or triple lantern, W.C. Hughes, 1880s)

Triunial or triple lantern

1880s

Laterna Magica (standard single lantern, W.C. Hughes, 1870s)

Standard single lantern

1870s

'Metamorphoser' lantern (automatic lantern, W.C. Hughes, n.d.)

Automatic lantern

unknown

Moto-Photoscope (cinematograph, W.C. Hughes, n.d.)

Cinematograph

unknown

'Pamphengos' double lantern (double lantern, W.C. Hughes, n.d.)

Double lantern

unknown

'Pamphengos' single lantern (standard single lantern, W.C. Hughes, n.d.)

Standard single lantern

unknown

Photo-Rotoscope (cinematograph, W.C. Hughes, n.d.)

Cinematograph

unknown

Photo-Rotoscope Peep Show (cinematograph, W.C. Hughes, 1899)

Cinematograph

1899

Triplexicon (oil-based illuminant, W.C. Hughes, n.d.)

Oil-based illuminant

unknown

Lucerna ID 1000823

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 31 May 2020

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