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 145
they are. In the Kroll process of glass-making, recently tested atCologne, an electric arc replaces flame with manifold advan-tages. The materials are fused in fifteen minutes insteadof in thirty hours; two-fifths of the fuel is saved; there isno risk of dirt or ashes falling into the glass; and… … we see a bar of cold iron dipped into a bath of water andquickly rise to a white heat? The mystery is solved whenwe observe that one pole of a powerful battery or dynamois connected with the bar, while the other pole is attached to the lead lining of the bath.The water as decomposed by thecurrent…
Fire · Electricity · Color photography
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