British Theatrical Patents 1901-1950

Edited by Terence Rees & David Wilmore

Like the earlier volume covering the 19th-century this collection of patents registered at the British Patents Office is a valuable resource for anyone interested in theatre, engineering, magic, and architecture. It includes many fascinating developments relating to moving lights, projection, dimming and control, as well as staging, illusions, and many other aspects of theatre technology. It reads like the Who’s Who of entertainment manufacturing.

Hardback; 355 pp, with many figs and ill., ISBN 978 0 85430 075 9

Co-published with Theatreshire Books. Sorry, no stock remaining with STR, so please order through your bookshop, or direct from www.theatresearch.co.uk

This collection of patents registered at the British Patents Office in the first half of the 20th-century is a valuable resource for anyone interested in theatre, engineering, magic, and architecture

£30.00

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