Cantor lectures on recent advances in photography (1882)
Abney, William de Wiveleslie, Sir, 1843-1920, author, Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (Great Britain) · London : Printed by William Trounce · leaf 6
with iodine, and subsequently with other sub¬ most of you are, as regards photography. Mr. stances, to cause sensitiveness. Daguerre and England has left me to do the talking, and Niepce must have noticed the alteration by therefore I must do the best I can to explain light in the silver iodide… … which he had exposed to light for some short time, in his chemical cupboard. Now, in that in one of which is placed iodine, and in the chemical cupboard were a variety of bottles of other is placed what is called bromide of lime, all descriptions. He had worked hard, and as that is to say, caustic…
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