The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-07-22
Photoarnphing in CoIo-s.

a special from New York to the Pitts
burg Dispatch. regarding the recer:
discovery of process whereby (. Is pos
sible to photograph In colors, says:
The results of this long-awalted
achievement are not simply garish reds
blues, and yellows. Pictures have been
taken that show seventeen distinc; col
o:S. The process was hit upon over
night. Years of time ard Thousands of
dollars were spent before success WIS
reached.
For thirty years James d. McDon-
ough has been laboring in Chicago to
reproduce photographs in colors. Thou
sands OF experiments were performed,
TILL one day. fifteen years ago, he go,
upon the right track. CAPITAL then
came to his aid. blu: the successful end
was not yet. lt
over in Dublin. Ire. Professor Jolly
the scientist, was working along the
same line. Success crowned his efforts
a few morthS ago. He sought letters
patent in London and in Washington.
70 MS utter establishment he found
Mclonough ahead of him in an appli-
CATION Tor an American patent. Both
men, thousands of miles apar, and
working independently had hit upon the
secret. Soon the patent office at Wash
nnstoh was overwhelmed with rival
CLAIMS or inventors. The men who ha a
been backing McDonough came to che
rescue fhey were willing that the one
whose claim was allowed should get n
snare In the profits of the company to
be formed ~
s,d me corporation got charter and
soov,ovo capital was provided for, with
PERMISSION 10 increase to So 600 600 The
secret is now public Spencer ID Scbuv-
Ter. head of the New York office OF tho
Maxim Powder and Torpedo Comnanv
NO. 4" wan street. and f. NJ. Dicker-
son. wealthy lawyer and amateur
photographer, of No. 253 Broadway orc
the hackers of the company thai exl
pects 10 revolutionize the art of nor
trait and commercial photography.
w nat 10 call the new art was a hard
question. The inventor wanted II nam
go ine McDonotype. The capitalists
would not hear to it. AS yet it is simnlv
the McDonough process BY IL either
instantaneous or timid exposures abso-
iutely perfect In detail and tint. can he
taken. The finished photograph looks
lhe an ordinary piece OF work marvel
ousiy colored by hand. but so simple is
me process. and yet so accurate. that
IL becomes merely mechanical
furthermore. the inventor does NOT
propose to end with the taking of nho.
toEraphs. Experiments are being made
which. II Is expected, will result I'm
transferring the art to printing. II will
De only question of time when a photo
graph can be taken and then printed
from half-tone plate on the specially
ruled screen and specially ruled paper.
=, multi-colored screen. ruled by fine
lines. formed OF dots or small particles.
Is employed. Fundamental colors of the
spectrum are preferably used for these
lines-say orange. red. a yeilowish green
and violet blue. The screen Is ruled
with lines In these colors. about 300
70 the inch. This screen is placed i'm
front of and in close contact with an
orthochromatic plate. which is then ex-
posed In the camera to the object to be
photographed. The. ordinary black and
white negative is thus obtained in lines
corresponding to the screen In the reg
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