Events in 1857 in animation.
Events Specific date unknown: In 1857, the earliest known illustration of a vertical biunial magic lantern, probably provided by E.G. Wood, appeared in the Horne & Thornthwaite catalogue.The Magic Lantern Society. Encyclopedia of the Magic Lantern. pp. 21–22 Biunial lanterns, with two projecting optical sets in one apparatus, were produced to more easily project dissolving views. In 1857, the social reformer Florence Nightingale produced "coxcombs" as part of a campaign to improve sanitary conditions in the British Army. It was an early example two-dimensional example of scientific visualization.Michael Friendly (2008). "Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization". This prefigured modern scientific visualization techniques that use computer graphics.
Births January January 4: Émile Cohl, French comics artist, caricaturist and film director (Fantasmagorie), (d. 1938).Donald Crafton; Emile Cohl, Caricature, and Film; Princeton Press; (1990)
Specific date unknown Romeyn Beck Hough, American botanist and physician (he sold magic lantern and microscope slides made from the thinnest transverse sections), (d. 1924).US Pat. 335703 Patent application for "Wooden card for business and other purposes". February 9, 1886. George R. Tweedie, English businessman, (he gained fame in 1891 by running a popular magic lantern show, titled "Gossip about Ghosts". The show, which cost sixpence, consisted of fifty slides, each illustrating a story about ghosts or supernatural occurrences), (d. 1937).Page 35, Paranormal Media: Audiences, Spirits and Magic in Popular Culture, Author: Annette Hill, Publisher: Routledge, 2010, , ...One public lecture titled 'Gossip about Ghost' by former chemist George Tweedie claimed 'spook hunting has recently become as fashionable as Slumming'...Page 220, The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science; with which is Incorporated the "Chemical Gazette.": A Journal of Practical Chemistry in All Its Applications to Pharmacy, Arts and Manufactures, Volume 37, Contributor: William Crookes, Publisher:Chemical news office, 1878, ...A process for coating iron with magnetic oxide by the action of heated air. By George R. Tweedie...
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