Stebbing's Automatic camera

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: E. Stebbing
NATIONALITY: French
PLACE MANUFACTURED: France, Paris
INTRODUCTION DATE: Aug. 3, 1883
PRODUCTION DATES: 1883-
FILM TYPE: stripping film
IMAGE SIZE: 5.5 x 7.5 cm.
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: $12.00 (1887)
SIGNIFICANT FEATURE: first roll film camera
FUNCTIONAL TYPES:
  box
  roll (other)
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: 90mm f/18 Achromatic meniscus

NOTES:
  "The first camera with a built in roll-holder (if we discount
  Professor Porro's panoramic camera) was described by Professor E.
  Stebbing at the Société Française de Photographie on August 3, 1883.
  He demonstrated his 'automatic' camera, which carried on two built-in
  rollers, a yard or two of sensitized paper, or of a special stripping
  film of his own devising." (Coe, 1973).
  The 'automatic' in the camera title refers to the fixed focus lens
  that the camera uses. (TFG).

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: S8105.00001
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 1093

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Lothrop, Eaton S., Jr. --A Century of Cameras from the Collection of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House.-- Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1973. pp 28.//
Coe, Brian. --Cameras: From Daguerreotypes to Instant Pictures.-- Gothenburg, Sweden: Nordbok, 1978. pp 80.//