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 430
orge A. Fargis, of theGeorgetown Observatory in Washington. An electri-cally driven clock moves a sensitised sheet of paper, catch- 36o THE CAMERA AND ELECTRICITY ing the image of a star at the instant of its passage acrossthe wires of a telescope—the time of transit being simul-taneously recorded… … Fig. 91.Fargis recorder. secured. There are motions swifter still to be depicted, butnone of them so swift as to elude the sensitive plate. Turn-ing upon its ally electricity, it makes plain its most deviouspaths, its most abrupt discharges. Lightning, naturaland artificial, in every phase, has…
Fire · Electricity · Color photography
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