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Show Antomatla Photographing. The latest development of the penny automatic delivery box is a machine for taking portraits, which will shortly be competing in railway stations and other ' public places with the sweetmeat and cigarette boxes. The machine is in the form of a large square box, mounted on a hollow pedestal. On the front center is a mall lens, surmounted by a mirror, a slot for pence is in the top left hand corner, cor-ner, while a smaller slot for half pence, in the opposite corner, is for the supply of brass folding frames for the mounting of the photographs. The person to be photographed takes his stand in front of the lens, with his back to a post or rail fixed at a distance of three feet from the machine, and adjusts himself so that his full face shall be reflected in the mirror. With his left hand he then puts a penny pen-ny in the slot and remains motionless for five seconds, when the sound of a bell announces that the impression is complete. In forty seconds more the finished photograph, on a metal plate, drops through the delivery hole on to a mall shelf, and the process is complete. An extra half penny will procure a suitable suit-able frame, but this luxury is optional. The impressions resemble those of the cheap glass positive photographs, only that tinplate is substituted for glass. The mechanism is at present a secret, but the principle appears to be that of a rotary arm, which carries the plate through a series of chemical batlis till the impression is developed and fixed. London Times. - |