Apparatus for Exhibiting Dramatic and
other Performances.
Letters Patent to Henry Dircks, of Blackheath, in the County of Kent, Civil Engineer, and John Henry Pepper, of No. 309, Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex, Professor of Chemistry, and Honorary Director of the Polytechnic Institution, for the Invention of “Improvements in Apparatus to be used in the Exhibition of Dramatic and other like Performances.”
Sealed the 25th September 1863, in pursuance of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, and dated the 5th February 1863.
Provisional Specification left by the said Henry Dircks and John Henry Pepper at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 5th February 1863.
We, Henry Dircks, of Blackheath, in the County of Kent, Civil Engineer, and John Henry Pepper, of No. 309, Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex, Professor of Chemistry, and Honorary Director of the Polytechnic Institution, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for “Improvements in Apparatus to be used in the Exhibition of Dramatic and other like Performances,” to be as follows:—
The object of our said Invention is by a peculiar arrangement of apparatus to associate on the same stage a phantom or phantoms with a living actor or actors, so that the two may act in concert, but which is only an optical illusion as respects the one or more phantoms so introduced.