British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, Vol. 1 The influence of photography, in its various applications, on our habits, our tastes, and social institutions, would prove a subject of the greatest interest, and has not as yet been treated with the attention it deserves. Certain it is that, having once possessed the art, we could ill afford to lose it. The wonder of yesterday has grown to be the social necessity of to-day; and so largely does it contribute to our luxuries and requirements, so intimately is it associated with our comfort, that it is difficult to convince ourselves that it is all the growth of some sixty years, that there are men still living who remember the first camera, and the mysterious powers with which their imagination invested it. Yet, recent as this growth has been, the origin of photography is apparently involved in as much mystery as that of any of the arts which derive from the earliest ages of civilization. Recent evidence tends to prove that "sun-pictures" were taken by James Watt and his partner, Matthew Boulton, of Birmingham, as early as 1792; but if this be so, the power of producing them would appear to have been lost in the course of a few years, and to have had a new starting-point in the experiments of Wedgwood and Sir Humphry Davy on salts of silver in 1802. From this time forward, the art of "photogenic drawing" occupied a good deal of attention among scientific men in England and on the Continent. Many substances were found sensitive to light, and in France the bitumen of Judea was employed by M. Niepce, of Chalons, in a very interesting series of experiments which he instituted about the year 1814. By means of this substance, and with the various silver salts, pictures were obtained by the action of light; but the results were very imperfect, and it was not till the year 1837 that any real advance was made towards a practical application of the new discovery. In this year, the Rev. J. Reade, then living at Peckham and pursuing some researches in photography, recalled a remark of Davy´s, that pictures were more readily taken on leather than on paper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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