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Kaleidoscope Making Kit
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Make up a 25cm long kaleidoscope whose object chamber is specially designed with a removable cover. Simply change the different trinkets included and make a colour changing kaleidoscope, or a mystic glow kaleidoscope, or a sparkling holographic kaleidoscope, or a snowflake kaleidoscope. You could also put in your favourite trinkets to create your very own style kaleidoscopes. Lots of ideas included and the fun is unlimited. This is a fun science project for the whole family. Contains 1 paper cone, 1... more >>> |
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£9.95 |
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Animation Praxinoscope
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Rebuild one of the world's first animation toys invented 170 years ago and learn optical principles which laid the theoretical backbone of modern animation and movies. Create your very own mini movies and invite your friends to attend a unique animation show.
Feature! special light bulb allowing you to view the animation at night. You will be amazed by the simulated impression of early movies. Contains full set Praxinoscope with light bulb installed (assembly required), 6 ready-to-view animation movie... more >>> |
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Zoetrope
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From first scientific toys that used animated images to modern movies, retinal persistence has been fundamental to fooling the mind into believing that a series of static images are in motion.
In1834, the English mathematician George Horner proposed a practical apparatus based on the phenakistoscope of Plateau and Stampfer (1830). It eliminated the need for a mirror and it enabled several people at the same time to view the moving pictures- an advance over the single spectator of the earlier toy.... more >>> |
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Praxinoscope
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12 mirrors Praxinoscope in decorative box including 14 color picture strips.
This smoothly working Praxinoscope has a wooden base and a strong, paper decorated, good quality plastic drum with copper top.
All picture strips are nicely printed in color on strong high quality paper reproductions of vintage samples. All strips are working perfectly and well demonstrate the illusion of movement by still images, thanks to the correct relation between the number of mirrors and number of images on the... more >>> |
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£62.58 |
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Brass Praxinoscope
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Brass Praxinoscope including 10 color & 10 black & white picture strips.
These smoothly turning Praxinoscopes have a wooden base and Brass drum with a wooden top.
All picture strips are reproductions of vintage samples. Depending on the correct relation of the amount of mirrors and the quantity of images, some strips works better than others.
This size of Praxinoscope is ideal to produce your own picture strips, strictly following the basic rules of mirror / images relation. The 11 mirrors are... more >>> |
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£72.54 |
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Brass Kaleidoscope
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Sir David Brewster is generally credited with the invention of the kaleidoscope in 1816. Due to an error in his patent he never made any money from it, depsite the popularity of such entertainment in Victorian times. The CELLOSCOPE (what most of us think of in connection with kaleidoscopes), has a collection of brightly coloured objects in the base which create an ever changing variety of symmetrical patterns when the base is turned.
8.5" (215 mm) long with a carrying pouch
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Teleidoscope
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Sir David Brewster is generally credited with the invention of the kaleidoscope in 1816. Due to an error in his patent he never made any money from it, despite the popularity of such entertainment in Victorian times. The TALEIDOSCOPE has a clear lens at the base, which turns everything you view through it into an infinitely changeable kaleidoscope image of the world. Each one comes with its own pouch.
3" tall.
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Leather Kaleidoscope
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This product is an optical instrument invented by David Brewster in 1816. By the following years it was very well known in all Europe. It consists of a cylinder whose interior is filled with small portions of coloured glass. The reflexion of these pieces on three flat mirrors creates endless combinations with different shapes when turning. Beauty, colour and variety have inspired artists and their creativity. This Kaleidoscope is actually a copy of the original Kaleidoscope dated in 1874 and found by... more >>> |
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£35.70 |
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Build Your Own Kaleidoscope
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Looking for the first time through the eyepiece of a classic kaleidoscope is a lasting memory for many little ones. Now add to this the unique excitement of assembling their own.
Get to understand the workings of reflecting mirrors and geometric patterns. Easy to create, highly interactive. No tools needed, just some patience.
M. 21.6 x 6.6 x 6.5cm,
M. 8.5 x 2.5 x 2.5"
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£11.24 |
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Laser Kaleidoscope
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Can You Imagine a personal laser light show the size of a pen?
Can You Imagine a display as large as a huge room?
Can You Imagine all of this at your creative control? We did!
Presenting the Laser Kaleidoscope™. Not just a laser pointer, this is real holographic and laser technology combined to create an infinite star-like display of kaleidoscopic images that YOU CONTROL - at your fingertips! All this power and still just the size of a pen - it even has a pocket clip. This display is so... more >>> |
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£61.30 |
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