Lizars
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The J. Lizars company was founded in 1830 by the optician John Lizars (1810-1879) in Glasgow, Scotland. When he died the company was continued, making eyeglasses, telescopes, microscopes, barometers, thermometers, magic lanterns and slides, cameras, stereo cameras and viewers and binoculars. Its stereo viewers and Challenge cameras were innovative. In 1913 it had branch offices in Edinburgh, Paisley, Greenock, Aberdeen, Liverpool and Belfast.
Nowadays the company is merged with C. Jeffrey Black to Black & Lizars and operates as optical retail chain.
"Victor" ¼-plate camera c.1890 image by Geoff Harrisson (Image rights) |
Links
- Advertisement for Celtic camera at edinphoto.org
- John Lizars at Double Exposure
- Cameras at www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand
- Black and Lizars history; minimal presentation at the company website
- British Patent 4231 of 1911, An Automatic Projecting Lantern, granted to John Lizars and Joe Quiggley, describing an electrically-driven slide-changer for projectors. The changer holds ten slides, and incorporates a shutter to cut off the projector lamp during the changes. At Espacenet, the patent search facility of the European Patent Office.