{"id":31140,"date":"2013-01-13T05:16:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T10:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=31140"},"modified":"2017-02-24T10:44:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T15:44:53","slug":"mystery-solved-2i-had-thought-the-old-pedestals-used-with-the-iconoscope-cam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=31140","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Solved&#8230;First Pedestals Were Electric!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mystery Solved  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/2\">#2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had thought the old pedestals used with the Iconoscope cameras in the 30s and 40s were perhaps hydrolac, but&#8230;not anymore. Thanks to further research by our friend Paul Beck, we now know these peds had an electric motor to take them up and down. In reexamining my archives, I came across this photo that may actually show the foot switch that operates the motor. Take a close look at the bottom right of the pedestal. These cameras were more bulk than weight and a small electric motor could easily handle the load of 100 pounds or less.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/473079662729588\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Mystery-Solved-2-I-had-thought-the-old-pedestals-used-with-the-Iconoscope-cam\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/473079672729587\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mystery Solved #2 I had thought the old pedestals used with the Iconoscope cameras in the 30s and 40s were perhaps hydrolac, but&#8230;not anymore. Thanks to further research by our friend Paul Beck, we now know these peds had an electric motor to take them up and down. In reexamining my archives, I came across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[683,742,881,770],"class_list":["post-31140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cameras","tag-iconoscope","tag-paul-beck","tag-pedestals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}