magic lantern
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In his downtime he would travel by horse and buggy across Pennsylvania and neighboring states with what he called his "exhibition": a new-fangled Edison phonograph, a magic lantern slide projector and later on, movies.
From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026
It sprinkles the open parts of the interior with sunlight during the day and glows like a magic lantern at night.
From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2017
It’s a magic lantern slide that was shown to patients, like a sort of early Rorschach inkblot.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2017
At the Connecticut Antiques Center a 100-year-old tin slide projector called a magic lantern was lurking on a bottom shelf with dusty cardboard boxes of about 50 glass slides.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2011
A magic lantern across the street threw the figures on the sheet.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
