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Camera Lucida (Mirrors)

Combinations of mirrors and glass to create a virtual image for tracing. Like the prism camera lucida, but using mirrors instead.

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Graphoscope (Camera Lucida)

Unknown

Circa 1960

Mirograph

Unknown

Circa 1948

Optical Compass

W. F. Stanley

1888

Teleiconographe

Eugène Viollet-Le-Duc

1868

Graphic Mirror

Benjamin Pike, Jr.

1856

Tracing Microscope (Camera Lucida)

Cornelius Varley

1843

Graphic Mirror

Alexander Alexander

1840

Microscope Camera Lucida

Cornelius Varley

1840

Optigraph

Thomas Jones

Circa 1820

Patent Graphic Telescope

Cornelius Varley

1811

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