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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 (1901)

Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday & McClure co. · leaf 337

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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,… … Plate X. 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…

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