The Romance of Modern Invention: Containing Interesting Descriptions in Non-technical Language of Wireless Telegraphy, Liquid Air, Modern Artillery, Submarines, Dirigible Torpedoes, Solar Motors, Airships, &c. &c.Williams, Archibald
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The Romance of Modern Invention: Containing Interesting Descriptions in Non-technical Language of Wireless Telegraphy, Liquid Air, Modern Artillery, Submarines, Dirigible Torpedoes, Solar Motors, Airships, &c. &c.
Williams, Archibald
Inventions
(_a_) _The Joly Process_, invented by Professor Joly of Dublin. A
glass plate is ruled across with fine parallel lines--350 to the inch,
we believe. These lines are filled in alternately with violet, green,
and red matter, every third being violet, green or red as the case may
be. The colour-screen is placed in the camera in front of the
sensitised plate. Upon an exposure being made, all light reflected
from a red object (to select a colour) is allowed to pass through the
red lines, but blocked by all the green and violet lines. So that on
development that part of the negative corresponding to the position of
the red object will be covered with dark lines separated by
transparent belts of twice the breadth. From the negative a positive
is printed, which of course shows transparent lines separated by
opaque belts of twice their breadth. Now, suppose that we take the
colour-screen and place it again in front of the plate in the position
it occupied when the negative was taken, the red lines being opposite
the transparent parts of the positive will be visible, but the green
and violet being blocked by the black deposit behind them will not be
noticeable. So that the object is represented by a number of red
lines, which at a small distance appear to blend into a continuous
whole.
The violet and green affect the plate in a corresponding manner; and
composite colours will affect two sets of lines in varying degrees,
the lights from the two sets blending in the eye. Thus yellow will
obtain passage from both green and red, and when the screen is held up
against the positive, the light streaming through the green and red
lines will blend into yellow in the same manner as they would make
yellow if projected by lanterns on to a screen. The same applies to
all the colours.
The advantage of the Joly process is that in it only one negative has
to be made.
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