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Show The Invention of tlie Panorama. The panorama was invented by a Scotchman named Robert Barker, who obtained a license in London in 1787 and erected a rotunda on Leicester square. He was associated with Robert Rob-ert Fulton, the practical inventor of the steamboat, who introduced panoramas pano-ramas into Paris in 1790, but resigned In favor of Thayer, perhaps in order to give his attention to the application of steam to boats. Thayer raised a rotunda ro-tunda on the Boulevard Montmartre, whence comes the name of the Passage des Panoramas. Bonaparte caused plans to be drawn up for eight panoramas, pano-ramas, in which his conquests were to bo shown to the Parisians, whom he always tried to impress with the magnitude magni-tude of tho achievements in order to j keep them faithful to liis star. But these projects were never realized. ' Chicago Herald. |