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 389
So far as is known,this was the first comet ever photographed. The plate,moreover, showed not only the comet which had beensought, but also stars which were unsought, and that werequite invisible in the telescope (Plate XVI). From theirimages, thus unwittingly secured, came the project of anew map… … Plate XVI. PHOTOGRAPH OF COMET BY UR. DAVID GILL, 1882.With incidtntal portraiture of stars invisible in the telescope. FLAME COLOURS MEAN MUCH 331 the limit of a plates impressibility. With the Observatoryof Paris as their centre, astronomers throughout the worldare now engaged upon a chart of the…
Fire · Electricity · Color photography
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