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The 19th century’s window into three-dimensional reality.[4][5][6][7][8][9] By merging two disparate perspectives into a single, "solid" view, the Stereoscope transformed living rooms into global travelogues, bringing the distant wonders of the world into vivid, immersive focus.

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Contents

Introduction to stereoscopes
1Introduction to stereoscopes
Illustrations of stereoscopes
2Stereoscopes: Book, magazine and ephemera illustrations
Types of Stereoscopes
3Stereoscopes: Wheatstone
4Stereoscopes: Brewster
5Stereoscopes: Holmes-Bates
6Stereoscopes: Lewis Patent
7Stereoscopes: Mascher
8Stereoscopes: Becker
9Stereoscopes: Pedestal
10Stereoscopes: Tabletop
11Stereoscopes: Floor-standing
Books with stereo photographs
12Charles Piazzi Smyth: Teneriffe - An Astronomer's Experiment (1857)
13Roger Fenton: The Conway in the Stereoscope (1860)
14William Despard Hemphill: The Abbeys, Castles, and Scenery of Clonmel and the Surrounding Countryside (1860)
15Edward Bierstadt: Gems of American Scenery, consisting of Stereoscopic Views among the White Mountains (1878)
Manufacture of stereoscopes
16H.C. White: The manufacture of stereoscopes and views

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