The Daguerreian Journal, Vol. I, No. 8, March 1, 1851Various
Science
The Daguerreian Journal, Vol. I, No. 8, March 1, 1851
Various
Daguerreotype; Photography -- Periodicals
To determine whether the saline residue contained a bromide, a small
portion of it was treated in a tube with pure nitric acid, and a yellow
liquid was immediately obtained. Another portion was mixed with peroxide
of manganese, and the mixture was placed in a glass tube; a few drops of
concentrated sulphuric acid were added, and when gently heated, red vapors
were immediately disengaged, and alter some lime there were deposited
on the sides of the tube small drops of a red liquid. The existence of
bromine was therefore evident, and it was proved that the bromide was
unmixed with iodide. Bromide of silver appears to be rare at Huelgoeth;
but it may be readily distinguished from the chloride by its greenish or
canary-yellow color, which is characteristic of it. It is remarkable that
it occurs with the chloride in the same specimens, but without there being
an intimate mixture of the two substances.
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=The Daguerreian Journal.=
=NEW YORK, MARCH 1, 1851.=
=HILLOTYPE.=
Since the announcement of the Hillotype, in the last number of the
Daguerreian Journal, quite an excitement has prevailed, both in the
Daguerreotype and scientific world. The great question has fairly been
solved and "_natural colors_" can be produced and rendered indelible upon
the metallic plate. America can safely say she has presented to the world
one of the most invaluable discoveries that has ever been imprinted upon
the pages of history.
Men profound in their scientific skill and learning, have long and in
vain sought for the discovery or invention of some means of securing
to the future, the colors of the present. All Europe has been alive to
this great desideratum, and many have presumed it an impossibility,
while some few persisted, flattered by hope and encouraged by the almost
daily announcement of some new discovery or invention, that heretofore
had been deemed only as having existence in the dreamy imagination or a
perspective future. We hail the discovery of the Hillotype as an epoch
bright in the history of science, as well as impregnated with interest to
aid in unfolding a volume of investigation which has so long commanded the
attention of learned and philosophical minds, as the "_colored rays of
light_."
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