JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
Shadows must come from somewhere, and it is that “somewhere” that this beautifully-titled chapter addresses.
In another unusually-titled piece, we find a “shadow-maker” embedded within patented “cloud creator”, as so
this taken from the 25 May 1892 patent granted to Steele MacKaye, though his apparatus was only for generating special effects for the theatre. Still, the title of the patent was pretty catchy, as was the “shadow-maker” part, which is evidently the only time that phrase is used in U.S. patents through 1900.