The romance of modern photography : its discovery & its achievements / by Charles R. Gibson ; with sixty-three illustrations.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Photography: The World through the Lens.
Main Author: Gibson, Charles R. (Charles Robert), 1870-1931
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : London : J.B. Lippincott Co. ; Seeley & Co., Ltd., 1908
Series:Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Photography: The World through the Lens.
Subjects:
Photography > History.
Photography > Scientific applications.
Online Access:
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Physical Description:1 online resource (345 unnumbered pages, 34 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • How photography came to be invented
  • Early photographs on silvered plates
  • A great English inventor
  • Instantaneous photography
  • Can we photograph in colours?
  • More about colour photography
  • Colour photography without colour screens
  • The making of book illustrations
  • More about book illustrations
  • The three-colour process of printing
  • Photography and the criminal
  • Photographing the invisible
  • More invisible rays
  • Photographing microbes, etc.
  • Photographing under difficulties
  • Telegraphing photographs
  • Nature's camera
  • Some interesting achievements
  • Photographing the stars
  • Photography and science
  • A camera without a lens, etc.
  • How light makes the photograph.