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- noun Plural form of
stereoscope .
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Examples
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Expert photographic interpreters studied the pictures using optical instruments such as stereoscopes to view them in 3D to build up detailed information for intelligence reports and models used in military planning for operations such as the D-Day landings.
Home | Mail Online 2009
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Using stereoscopes, the entertainment-seeking public of the 19th century immersed themselves in these 3D photographs called stereographs in a manner akin to how we now view movies, video games or cellphone screens.
The New York Public Library: New Perspectives on Old Perspectives: How an Art Project Helped the NYPL Put Its 3D Stereograph Collection in Your Hands The New York Public Library 2012
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"Using stereoscopes, the entertainment-seeking public of the 19th century immersed themselves in these 3D photographs called stereographs in a manner akin to how we now view movies, video games or cellphone screens."
Are 19th Century Stereographs The Modern-Day GIF? The Huffington Post 2012
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"Using stereoscopes, the entertainment-seeking public of the 19th century immersed themselves in these 3D photographs called stereographs in a manner akin to how we now view movies, video games or cellphone screens."
Are 19th Century Stereographs The Modern-Day GIF? The Huffington Post 2012
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We'll never know because, while a small number of public, coin-operated stereoscopes still survive in antique arcades such as the Musee Mechanique in San Francisco, the experience of these stereographs in their own time has been lost to history.
The New York Public Library: New Perspectives on Old Perspectives: How an Art Project Helped the NYPL Put Its 3D Stereograph Collection in Your Hands The New York Public Library 2012
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So do many movie lovers — even executives who feel stampeded by another Hollywood infatuation with a technology that was already pointless when their grandfathers played with stereoscopes.
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Today's young people will think electronic books are normal, because they will be, and children will be curious about the old paper books as we are curious when seeing Edison cylinders and stereoscopes.
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Crary sees the rage for dioramas and stereoscopes as symptoms of the new, nineteenth-century model of vision: "The loss of touch as a conceptual component of vision meant the unloosening of the eye from the network of referentiality incarnated in tactility and its subjective relation to perceived space" (19).
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Invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1838, stereoscopes were all the rage in the late 1800s to early 1900s.
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It really does look like one of my old stereoscopes, a Holmes Viewer for the modern age, if you will.
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