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Flame, electricity and the camera; man's progress from the first kindling of fire to the wireless telegraph and the photography of color (1900)

Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday & McClure co. · leaf 342

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shington Square (Plate X). The lady is stillliving to show us that one long life may bridge the inter-val between the germination and the flowering of a greatart. Fox-Talbot, taking another tack from that of Niepceand Daguerre, sought to obtain pictures on paper insteadof on metal; and paper,… … COPY OF THE EARLIEST SUNLIGHT PICTURE OF A HUMAN FACE. Miss Dorothy Catherine Draper, taken by her brother. Professor John William Draper, early in 1840. TEN SECONDS ENOUGH 291 as does light. Using this acid as a developer, he was ableto shorten the exposure needed for his calotype tothree minutes.…

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