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A Rackwork Slide
Rackwork - A Rackwork slide is a slide where turning a handle at the side of the slide rotates one sheet of glass over another. There is a wide range of Rackwork slides, from simple slides showing for example a windmill with the sails turning, through to double Rackwork slides where there are two sheets of glass rotating in opposite directions. These are used for Chromatrope's and Fountain slides.
Rain Effect - A form of Effect Slide where the slide is a curtain with slots in it. When the slide is projected in a Biunial or Triunial with another slide also being projected, the effect is of rain falling on the scene being projected.
Reading - Most sets of slides originally had a reading. For scientific subjects this frequently took the form of the lecture that explained the subject. For temperance and similar subjects this was frequently a mawkish nineteenth century poem. The Society maintains probably the World's largest library of slide readings. Full details in the Slide Readings section.
Ross Lanterns - The Ross company was one of the last manufacturers of Magic Lanterns. It was active in the early years of the twentieth century, and produced a range of metal magic lanterns and epidiascopes that were used largely for educational purposes.
Royal Polytechnic - The Royal Polytechnic Institute in Regent's Street in London was scene of some of the best magic lantern shows of all time. Using specially made hand painted large slides, with lanterns to match, shows were given during the middle years of the nineteenth century. These shows frequently involved complicated dissolves and effect slides.
Russian Iron - The black finished iron used for many of the lanterns in the last years of the nineteenth century and the first years of the twentieth century was known at the time as Russian Iron. It was not made in Russia, it was purely the name of the type of iron used.
