Joseph E.
Maxfield of the Signal Service. It is reported that one of the French
balloons will be first given a careful test from the deck of one of the
war-ships off Cuba. The necessary plant for generating the gas is
already in Tampa; the gas will be forwarded in steel tubes, which will
hold a large volume when the gas is compressed.
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It is now proposed to take the necessary apparatus to Cuba, and have
pictures of the bombardment of Havana and of other engagements made for
reproduction with the cinematograph. Dr. D. S. Elmendorf is now at
Tampa, Fla., making elaborate preparations for taking these pictures.
The cinematograph is a wonderful invention. By a clever arrangement
hundreds of photographs are taken, one after the other, with marvellous
rapidity; these pictures are printed on a long strip, and made to pass
through the magic lantern as rapidly as when the photographs were taken;
the result is a composite picture which, when thrown upon a screen,
reproduces every motion.
Edison was the one who invented this system of taking in succession very
rapidly a great number of pictures of moving objects. We hope that Dr.
Elmendorf will be successful, for we will then be able to see these
interesting scenes; and if by a clever use of the phonograph or
graphophone he can record the sound of the guns, we may not only see,
but hear, the battles.
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In THE GREAT ROUND WORLD last year we described experiments that were
being made with kites by Mr.
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