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 338
- bridge the inter-val between the germination and the flowering of a greatart. Fox-Ta!bot, taking another tack from that of Niepceand Daguerre, sought to obtain pictures on paper insteadof on metal; and paper, because translucent, lent itself toreproduction as negatives. He made the capital… … Plate X. COPY OF THE EARLIEST SUNLIGHT PICTURE OF A HUMAN FACE. Miss Dorothy Catherine Draper, taken by her brother, Professor Juhn 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…
Fire · Electricity · Color photography
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