photochromoscopen.
/ˌfəʊtə(ʊ)ˈkrəʊməskəʊp/, U.S. /ˌfoʊdoʊˈkroʊməˌskoʊp/ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for observing > [noun] > for viewing photographs
photoscope1875
graphoscope1879
photochromoscope1881
viewer1934
1881 Eng. Mechanic 27 May 294/3 (advt.) Five-guinea Photochromoscope,..adds Nature's beauteous tints to any glass transparency.
1911 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1625/1 Photochromoscope, a device for giving shifting effects of color to a photograph.]
2. A device for viewing a set of three monochrome photographs stereoscopically through red, green, and blue filters so that they are seen as a single appropriately coloured image. Cf. kromskop n. Now historical.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > viewing of photographs > [noun] > equipment for viewing
graphoscope1879
zoogyroscope1880
zoopraxinoscope1889
heliochromoscope1892
photochromoscope1893
kromskop1897
viewer1934
slide viewer1960
1893 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 40 798 Which could be used like the stereoscope or the photo-chromoscope.
1895 Cycl. Rev. Current Hist. (U.S.) 5 963 By means of an instrument to which has been given the name ‘photochromoscope’, a stereoscopic effect is produced in which the original tints stand out faithfully.
1937 Science 15 Oct. 340/2 His brilliant success in the solution of this problem by the invention in 1892 of the photochromoscope..won for him recognition in the scientific world.
1996 Stamps (Nexis) 9 Mar. 14 By 1890 he developed the photochromoscope or Kromskop, a three negative system of color photography which projected colored views of remarkable fidelity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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