The Evolution of Photography: With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, Etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty YearsWerge, John, active 1854-1890
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The Evolution of Photography: With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, Etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years
Werge, John, active 1854-1890
Photography -- History
"Valentine Blanchard--Instantaneous views, wet collodion, 1856-65.
Illustrations of a method of enlargement, as proposed by V. Blanchard,
1873. Modification of the Brewster stereoscope by Oliver Wendell
Holmes.
"Bullock (Bros.)--Photo-lithography, 1866 (Bullock's patent).
"T. Bolas, F.C.S.--Detective camera, 1876. Negative photograph on
bitumen, made insoluble by the action of light. Carbon negatives
stripped by Wenderoth's process.
"E. Clifton--Portrait of Daguerre. Crystallotype by J. R. Whipple, 1854.
Specimens from "Pretsch" photo-galvano-graphic plates, 1856.
"T. S. Davis, F.C.S.--A combined preparation and wash bottle for
gelatine emulsion. Adjustable gauge for cutting photographic glasses.
"De la Rue and Co.--Surface printing from blocks executed by Paul
Pretsch, 1860.
"W. England--Old Daguerreotype developing box. Old ditto sensitising
box. Old camera, 1860, with rapid inside shutter. Instantaneous views in
Paris, wet collodion, 1856-65.
"Edinburgh Photographic Society--Archer's water lens.
"James Glaisher, F.R.S.--Nature printing, taken over thirty years ago.
"G. Fowler Jones--Prints from negatives by Le Gray's ceroline process.
"R. Kennett--Skaife's pistolgraph. Globe lens.
"Dr. Maddox--Some of the earliest gelatino-bromide negatives, by the
originator of the process, 1871.
"Mudd and Son--Collodio-albumen negatives.
"R. C. Murray--Early Talbotype photographs, 1844-45.
"H. Neville--Camera with Sutton's patent panoramic lens.
"Mrs. H. Baden Pritchard--Impressions from pewter plates of heliographic
drawing, by Nicéphore Niépce, 1827. Original letter, by Nicéphore
Niépce, sent to the Royal Society, 1827. View of Kew, taken by Nicéphore
Niépce, 1827.
"H. P. Robinson--Heliographic picture, by Nicéphore Niépce, 1826.
Photo-etched plate (from a print), by Niépce in 1827. Heliograph (from a
print), by Niépce, 1827. One of the earliest printing-frames, made for
Fox Talbot's photogenic drawing, 1839. The first nitrate of silver bath
used by Scott Archer in his discovery of the collodion process, 1850.
"Ross and Co.--One of Archer's earliest fluid lenses. The first
photographic compound portrait lens, made by Andrew Ross, 1841.
Photographic camera, believed to be the first made in England.
"Sands and Hunter--Old lens, with adjustable diaphragm, by Archer, 1851.
Old stereoscopic camera, with mechanical arrangement for transferring
plates to and from the dark slide.
"T. L. Scowen--Parallel bar stereoscopic camera. Latimer Clarke.
"John Spiller, F.C.S., F.I.C.--The first preserved plates (three to
twenty-one days), 1854. Illustrations of the French Pigeon Post.
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