PANAJI, India (Reuters Life!) - Long before the lights, cameras and the action came to Bollywood, a family armed with a "magic lantern" breathed life into stories from Hindu mythology to audiences ...

Regarded as magic in the 1650s, this device was refined into the more scientific sounding sciopticon by the mid-1800s. The Pettibone Peacock Sciopticon is a simple device when you compare it to ...