Lampe à arc électrique
N° Inventaire : AP-02-2415
Collection : La Cinémathèque française
Catégorie d'appareil : Projection lumineuse (accessoire)
Nom du modèle : Beard's improved hand-feed arc lamps model A
Lieu de fabrication : Londres, Grande-Bretagne
Année de fabrication : 1900
Copyright photo : Dabrowski Stéphane
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Type de l'appareil
deux bras réglables en hauteur et en largeur, à deux arcs de charbon verticaux ; vis réglables ; fil électrique
Auteurs
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Fabricants
Robert Royou Beard
Londres, 10 Trafalgar Road, Old Kent Road
Utilisateurs
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Distributeurs
Robert Royou Beard
Londres, 10 Trafalgar Road, Old Kent Road
Sujet du modèle
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Objectif
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Taille de l'objet
Ouvert :
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Longueur : 28 cm
Largeur : 12 cm
Hauteur : 25 cm
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Taille de la boîte de transport
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Remarques
Marque "RRB".
"Beard's improved hand-feed arc lamps for Cinematograph and Optical Lantern Projection. Model A. The introduction of the Square Tube Arc Lamp is owing to the experience of many workers with the round tube lamp complaining of the wear of the sockets, which soon cause the carbon holders to oscillate and put them out of line. To obviate this and maintain the truth of the carbon, the square tube pattern has been produced ; the wear and tear takes place only upon the edges of the tube, which will appear and be plain to all users and operators as a better system, and ensuring rigidity and truth of the working parts. The Carbon holders are of special construction, and, being fitted with a single screw clamp, give greater facility for removing and renewing the Carbons. The Lamp is fitted with a swing joint and clmaping screw for setting the Carbons at any desired angle" (Catalogue Latest illustrated catalogue of Bioscopes and Accessories, R.R. Beard Manufacturer, 10 Trafalgar Road, Old Kent Road, London S.E., (Will Day 8° 105 br.), s.d., p. 42.)
"A famous name in the lantern world at this time, was R. R. Beard (10 Trafalgar Road, Old Kent Road, S.E.). His fame chiefly rested on a patent compressed gas regulator of his own invention, which became an essential piece of equipment for lantern exhibitors when using cylinders of compressed oxygen and hygrogen gases for the limelight, then extensibely employed in optical lanterns and cinematographes as an illuminant. [...] Robert Royou Beard was born on the 10th of March, 1856, at Royal Palace, Commercial Road, Peckham, and died in February, 1932. [...] With the increasing popularity of the cinematograph among lantern exhibitors, Beard was not slow in realising the growing demand for this class of apparatus and accordingly in 1897 brought out his own projector, which was known as Beard's Cinematographe" (John Barnes, The Rise of the Cinema in Gt. Britain, London, Bishopsgate Press Ltd, 1983, p. 71-73).
Bibliographie
Catalogue Latest illustrated catalogue of Bioscopes and Accessories, R.R. Beard Manufacturer, 10 Trafalgar Road, Old Kent Road, London S.E., (Will Day 8° 105 br.), s.d., p. 42.