Grand stereoscopic viewer in hardwood manufactured by Jules Richard.Los Stereoscopic viewers were very popular at the beginning of the twentieth century and TAXIPHOTE them, is the most destacado.Este model has a mechanism for changing the pictures automatically, you can adjust the focus between eye Condition: Good -State according to age, some obvious sign of the passing of the old wood -Visores Bakelite without breaking any, chrome in good condition. -Mild wooden separation of closure (not affect the overall) -óptico without breakage. -Machinery working 100% .Debe be aware that it is an article of 100 years old and may need slight adjustment -Conserva key original, He delivered with charger original Bakelite crystals / photographic plates 10.5 cm x 4.5 -Measurements: 42 x 25 x 25 (approx.) Powered by Jules Richard (1848-1930)"" Le Taxiphote"" is, our mechanical desktop stereo viewer with all its drawers and original parts, custom sliding trays and a collection of glass stereo views of Paris and the French countryside. This device is the most technically sophisticated of all estereoespectadores Richard invented, highly developed from the hand-held stereoscope that most families had at home. All these devices involve two photographs taken at approximately the distance between our eyes, so that looking through the viewer, the two images merge into a single three-dimensional image. Camera Richard to stereograms called"" Verascope"" patented in 1893. A few years later, in 1899, patented the first model for viewing stereoscopic slides, to which he called"" Le Taxiphote"" , which sold well into 1930s There are two levers; one to lift the slide and see the image with both eyes and a smaller second lever to read the text in the title of the slide with his right eye. Jules Richard was the son of Richard Felix, a manufacturer of optical instruments and measuring and nephew of Gustave Froment, a manufacturer of electrical instruments known. Jules designed barometers, thermometers, stopwatches, dynamometers and other photographic devices. "" After thirty years of property and personnel management Jules Richard, in 1921 the company became a public company with a capital of six million francs and a workforce of about 300 employees. In 1923, Richard gave the city of Paris six million francs to found a"" Ecole des Apprentis mecaniciens Précisionnistes"" (Apprentice School Mechanical Precisionnistas), in order to train builders precision instruments and ensure continuity of the powers were so important. This university still there. so does the company, the least in name, the actual'Société JRC '(Jules Richard Constructeurs) that manufactures precision instruments for industrial uses"" . Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.
