Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1881 — A Wonderful Invention. [ARTICLE]

A Wonderful Invention.

London Dally Telegraph. Wonders will nev.r cease. By aid of the dioscope, au ingenious instrument brought for the first time to public notice iluriug the Parisian electrical congress, patrous of the drama who are reluctant to leave their comfortable firesides and temporarily revolutionize all their domestic arrangement* to attend theatrical perforn an ‘es in loco, will henceforth be enabltd to see as well as heat their favorite operatic and historic artists without stilting a yard from home. The apparatus consists of an “objective” lens, fixed up in a posltidn commanding the stage of no matter what theatre, and connected by an electric wire to a white glass plate, which may be framed and eet in the Eanuel of a private drawing room/ owflver die taut from the playhouse in cuestion. Total darkness having been obtained in the room furnished with a dioscope. a perfect picture of the stage, its scenery, setors, etc., faithful in color and absolutely reproducing the whole, will become visible on the surface of the gla*s plate. Supplemented by a telephone communication with the theater, the dioscope will therefore enable its owner to spend bis evening at the opera in dressing gown and slippers, if such be hie ideal of comfort, seated in an easy chair v ithin hail of his lait de pou!<i e Imnne de nuit. To those, and their name ia legion, who detest premature dinner, hurried dressing, and a couple of hours’ cabbiug “there and back” as the hitherto inevitable concomitants of a visit to the play, the condition of things rendered feasible by the invention of the dioscope will present itself as a truly b'iseful addition to their pleasure resources.