PHOTOGRAPHY
France last month celebrated the centenary of photography, commemorating the fact that in July, 1825, Joseph Nicephore Niepce invented the "Bitumen Process." Last year, h.wever, a :nemorial tablet was unveiled at the Royal Photographic Society, London, to the "Father of Photography," Henry Talbot, who produced a permanent, negative on paper inlßo9 (says the Inverness Chronicle). To these rival claims must be a Ided those of Josiah Wedgwood and Sir Humphry Davy, who obtained results by coating paper with a solution of silver nitrate prior to ISO2. There may be cited, too, the invention of the Camera Obscura, ancestor of the modern Kodak, by J. D. Porta, in the year 1569, and it is worth recording that the first lens was discovered in the ruins of 'Nineveh, and is now in the British Museum.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1688, 19 November 1925, Page 2
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134PHOTOGRAPHY Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1688, 19 November 1925, Page 2
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