Flame, electricity and the camera; man's progress from the first kindling of fire to the wireless telegraph and the photography of color (1901)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday & McClure co. · leaf 315
as skill.Development as the work of heat was known long beforethe time of Daguerre. The chemists of the middle ageswere ingenious enough to make an ink which stained thepaper no more than water as it left the pen; on warmingthe inscribed tablet before a flame its secret messagesprang into full… … Plate VII. JOSEPH NICEPHORE NIEPCE. DIVISION OF LABOR 275 right developer, and a further rearrangement of moleculessets in, this time with so marked a change of colour that animage emerges to view. A sketcher cannot delegate toany other hand than his own a single line or stipple of hisdrawing; the…
Fire · Electricity · Color photography
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