Ornak projector

An electric projector is used for displaying slides on a projection screen. An image is put on a slide through which light passes, allowing projection of the image on a screen. The projector’s appearance harkens back to an early projection device called the laterna magica, where an image was projected from a hand-painted glass transparency. The earliest mention of projecting images using the laterna magica, and one of the first devices of this type was designed in 1645 by the German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher. The Ornak portable projector was placed in a housing made of polished brass, which was a rarity. The manufacturer praised the design as not containing “any wooden parts or parts which can easily break or bend”. The device was designed to project images from slides on film. Manufacturer: Wytwórnia Aparatów Projekcyjnych i Seryj Filmowych ORNAK, Warsaw, Poland, 1925-1939 Inv. No. MIM 202/VI-43 Model prepared on the basis of photogrammetric measurements Licence: CC BY-NC-SA