Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography

by Albert A. Hopkins

We also give photographs of a [pigeon] rising in flight and the successive attitudes of a [gull].

Space forbids us to more than state that the analysis of the flight of birds is a most interesting and important subject, and the results obtained by chronophotography are most gratifying.

FIG. 17.—MODE OF USING THE PHOTOGRAPHIC GUN.

FIG. 18.—MECHANISM OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC GUN.

• 1.—General View of the Apparatus.
• 2.—The Shutter and Perforated Disk.
• 3.—Box containing Twenty-five Sensitized Plates.