Inside Out Library · Explore

The Photographic art-journal (1851)

Snelling, Henry Hunt, 1816-1897 · [New York : W.B. Smith] · leaf 349

An illustration from The Photographic art-journal, 1851, leaf 349
heshave been attributed by Sir John Herscheland Mr. Talbot to u the assumption of de-.finite and different chemical states of thesilver within and without their area. Afew experiments will prove this to be thecase. Prepare a piece of the less sensitivepaper, with only one wash of silver, andwhilst… … pale blue, and the shadedportions a deep brown. Inpursuing our inquiry intothe cause of this singulari-ty, it will be found thatover the light parts a purechloride of silver, or achloride with a slight ex-cess of the muriate of soda,iBilfillittHMlllis diffused; but over the6 dark parts the chloride…

Photography · Art and photography

Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from The Photographic art-journal

More like this