Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 13 October 1896, Page 3

Notes and Events.

A famous photographer in London has invented a new plan for printing photographs, by which he can tarn them out at the rate of one thousand an hour. At one end of the machine • large roll of sensitised paper is placed, and this is hurried along by an endless band.in its course passing, first under a negative, where an electric flash prints an invisible image. Thence it plungea into a succession of troughs, out of which it emerges to enter a spraying ohamber, and finally travels down a •haft, where an air blast makes it dry.

The inventor dreams of a still farther improvement and spaed, his idea being to make photographs for the magazines and newspaper. He has advanced so far that he explained to an interviewer a machine whereby a person unskilled in photography BMf by manipulating a keyboard raeh as if usta in typewriting, get

up and photograph pages of matter with inset piotures. The negatives so produced are, after developement, placed in the automatic printing machine, copies being turned out at the rate of several thousands an hour. Thus you get a journal, printed in good black, entirely by means of photography.

Talking about photographing recalls to mind that great is the rage at present to have one's hands and feet shadow-graphed, or in other words, the skeleton shown. At the late royal marriage the young prince and princess of Denmark had their bands taken. Actors, actresses, lords and ladies air have it done. An English paper shows the hand of Miss Lottie Collins of "Tara-ra-boom-de-ay" fame, and also the hand of Mr W. S. Penley of " Charley's Aunt."