Audience enjoying stereoscopic panoramas, Austro-Hungarian Empire, ~1900
1d 6h ago by piefed.social/u/PugJesus in historyphotos@piefed.social from media.piefed.social
I found this good explanatory article. It is indeed just a dual-photo stereoscope viewer, but every few minutes the machine would rotate over to a different image, like a slow slideshow in 3d
I don't think i understand the description. It sounds like it only does what those little handheld stereoscopes did, where you slot the dual photograph into the viewer slot.
Is that right?
I believe so. This was a new and exciting technology at the time, though!
The stereoscope predates this by decades, so i don't think that's it. Maybe handle stereoscopes were for rich people and this was like a stereoscope viewing station for the masses?
These particular viewing devices, according to the German wiki, only dated to the 1880s, and were made for regular attendance by the masses rather than middle-class hobbyists.
If you know both english and german, and the german article has info that's missing in the english article, then this is a perfect time to edit wiki! You can just translate the missing info and add it to the english article!
But only if you want to of course
I actually only know a few words of German, but I have a habit of checking the other language wikis with Google Translate if something seems missing. XD
The English language wiki cites the patent as ~1890, so it's not far off.
In any case, my wiki editing days are long over. I was in The Trenches(tm) back in 2010-2014 and I have no desire to return. Arguing for the validity of edits is a young man's game!
You can always "fire and forget". Meaning you can make the edit, then not ever look at it again. For a very niche article like this one i doubt there are people fighting about anything.
Anyway, just a suggestion for a fun thing to do
It was a better experience, like going to the movie theatre vs watching broadcast SD TV at home.
The Kaiserpanorama used glass slides illuminated by light bulb, as opposed to the handheld stereoscopes of that era, which were usually dual printed postcards in whatever ambient light was available.
The chairs they are sitting on is the Thonet Stuhl Nr. 14. It was incredibly popular in Austria at the time and they are still being produced.
They just talked about this on the last bonus episode of Well There's Your Problem podcast
TLDL?