Long before the introduction of those little cardboard, blue-eye, red-eye 3D glasses, Americans knew how to create three dimensional entertainment. They used hand-held devices – precursors to ...

Invented in 1838 as a tool for investigating theories of vision 1, the stereoscope is sometimes described as an early virtual reality tool. In the years following its invention, the stereoscope and ...

Australian astrophysicist Paul Bourke has made what must be the only stereoscope in the world from a pair of iPod photos – iPod-Photo stereoscope: "n the early days of photography, stereoscopic ...

To share intriguing pictures with your family and friends during the Victorian era, you would purchase stereoscope viewing cards and show them to people in your home. Call it the “Instagram” of the ...

Stereoviews or stereographs were a 19th-century two-part system of photographs that created a 3-D illusion when viewed ...

Dear John: I have attached photos of a viewer - we cannot remember what it is called - that has been in our family for at least 90 years. Can you tell us the name of the thing and what the value might ...

The ancestor to the ViewMaster, this device brought the wow! factor into the classroom with 3-D. The stereoscope had been around since the mid- 1800s (Queen Victoria was a big fan). But it wasn’t ...

Submitted PhotoA stereoscope slide of Forman Park. When viewed through a stereoscope, the pictures merge together in a 3-D scene. When the weather turns nice and visitors peer through a new scope at ...

We've been slowly working through Oliver Wendell Holmes' 1859 feature on photography over the last couple of days. I looked at allegorical readings of the piece and at the beauty of his science ...

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It’s an unfortunate consequence of growing older, that no longer are you able to read the print on a SOT-23 package or solder a QFN without magnification. Your eyes inexorably start to fail, and to ...