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Kodak's brilliant Carousel system of slide projectors was first patented in 1965 by David E. Hansen of Fairport, NY. Hansen, an engineer at the Eastman Kodak Company, following the presentation of this concept to him by former Kodak employee Italian-American Louis Misuraca.  This original design was refined and developed by Hans Gugelot and Reinhold Hacker at Kodak AG in Stuttgart during 1966 leading to the launch of the original Carousel S later that year in Europe and the USA, to universal acclaim.

Kodak Carousel projectors quickly became the no.1 choice for professional presentation environments, educational use and other commercial applications, leading the market for the next 30+years

Each circular tray holds 80 35mm / 2x2in slides, and is filled with each slide placed in upside down and backwards, so that the image is presented with the correct orientation. The tray has a metal plate on the bottom with an opening about 5 mm wide barely long enough to pass a single slide to the projection gate below it.

Back in the 1960s, this Kodak system offered three major advantages over straight-tray, horizontal-feed systems;
  -  the Carousel tray held slides in place with a locking ring on its hub, preventing slides from accidentally spilling out of the tray if it was dropped
  -  by using gravity to lower the slide into the projector, the chance of jamming was greatly reduced, since a warped slide would not descend past the point at which it encountered resistance in the mechanism
  -  the circular tray also enabled the projector to display automated shows without the need to manually reset the slide tray between performances.

Interestingly, the actual Kodak Carousel magazines were not made by Kodak themselves, this job was contracted out to a European corporation called A-P, who became part-owned by Kodak when they built a factory in partnership with them in the USA.  A-P went on to produce the only non-Kodak branded Carousel magazines, and they also fulfilled a much requested feature from users that Kodak never offered - different coloured Carousal magazines

This is a brand new, unused A-P branded rotary slide magazine for all Kodak Carousel 35mm slide projectors that accept the original 80-capacity rotary type of magazine, boxed complete with original lid, and this one is plain black