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 387
d inhalf- the Amateur Photographic Society of -,,., •.- , ,. , tone. When magnified, as Madras. ° in Fig. 86, we can under-stand how much the suggestions of the mind piece out andcomplete the crude outlines of a process picture. Theeye sees what it brings with it the power of seeing.1 i The United… … CHAPTER XXIII THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE SKIES DR. JOHN W. DRAPER, who, as we have alreadynoted, was the first to portray the human face in thecamera, was also the first to photograph a heavenly body.In March, 1840, he succeeded in takingpictures of the moon, which were fairly The Beginnings,good,…
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