Brewster splendid and rare stereo viewer lemon wood, a wood type commonly used for the visors. It is the first model launched around 1854. viewer is in very good condition.
Today we speak one of the latest acquisitions for the collection of Foticos: a viewer Brewster lemon wood type . This viewer has its particular peculiarity yellow undoubtedly granted by the type of wood that is manufactured. This viewer belongs to the first model of Brewster, so it could date from 1851 , our apparatus has glass translucent and adjustable lens sideways
As we told you in Communique No. 199, laws of stereoscopic photography were made in 1832 by Charles Wheatstone. So was not David Brewster who invented the stereoscope , in fact he credited the invention of this article to Mr. Elliot, a math teacher who conceived Edinburgh the idea in 1823 and built a simple stereoscope without lenses or mirrors and was used for transparencies of landscapes drawn. The contribution of Brewster was the use of lenses to unify non-identical photos in 1849 therefore it could be said that the lenticular stereoscope (based on the use of lenses) itself was actually his invention.
Brewster was unable to find a manufacturer in England and took him to France in 1850, where the device was improved by Jules Dubosq , reducing the size and creating handheld devices that became known as . stereoscope of Brewster type viewer type Brewster was admired by queen Victoria when it was unveiled at the Great exhibition in the Crystal Palace of 1851 Before the end of the Brewster exhibition presented to the queen. Victoria with a model of gift Dubosq had made especially for her, resulting in a fashion that managed to sell 250,000 stereoscope in three months
the display Brewster managed to standardize the size and shape of the stereograph, thus allowing its production outside millionaire . his model ushered in the era of the" stereoscope of living" , because the device it became a familiar fixture in homes in Britain and the United States. the display type Brewster allowed people of his time first saw the 3D world, to us, accustomed to 3D vision allows us to also access a gone world that would otherwise have been lost to us.