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An overhead projector works on the same principle as a slide projector, in which a focusing lens projects light from an illuminated slide onto a projection screen where a real image is formed. However some differences are necessitated by the much larger size of the transparencies used (generally the size of a printed page), and the requirement ...
A projector or image projector is an optical device that projects an image (or moving images) onto a surface, commonly a projection screen. Most projectors create an image by shining a light through a small transparent lens, but some newer types of projectors can project the image directly, by using lasers .
In the GDR, it was mainly known for producing overhead projectors, called Polylux. The company was founded in 1870 as Reißzeugrichter and manufactured drawing table tools. In 1874 the founder Emil Oskar Richter invented the bow compass. After switching its focus to overhead projectors in the late 1960s, it was renamed to VEB Polytechnik.
Overhead projector and slide projector: Video projector: Primarily for continued use of older materials. Some teachers find the overhead projector more convenient for lectures depending on their teaching style. Phonograph and phonograph record: Audio cassette, 8 track tape, CD, digital audio: Used to play older or archived recordings.
He soon launched a repair shop for Edison projectors as he developed his own. [1] His great improvement on the Edison models was inventing a projector that didn't flicker. [2] The Silent Cinema Society features a copy of his 1916 "Cameragraph" catalog, for a projector he patented in 1906, from the holdings of the Hoboken Historical Museum. [3]
The Polylux was an overhead projector produced in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It also functioned as a generic name for overhead projectors in the GDR. The Polylux was produced in the VEB ( Volkseigener Betrieb : people’s enterprise) Phylatex-Physikgeräte DDR, in Frankenberg near Chemnitz (then known as Karl-Marx-Stadt ).
Overhead projector in operation, with a transparency being flashed A transparency , also known variously as a viewfoil or foil (from the French word "feuille" or sheet), or viewgraph , is a thin sheet of transparent flexible material, typically polyester (historically cellulose acetate ), onto which figures can be drawn.
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