The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-10
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Birthday Of PhotoorapI,v.
SUNDAY, JULY 40. 1e10

The art OF photography or, rather,
the action of light on chloride of silver
was known as early as the sixteenth
century. 1t was carefully studied by
Scheele, Senebier. Ritter and Wollaston
and from the results of their inVcstIga-
lions, photography. as we understand 1t,
as WedGewood and Humphrey Davy, the
former OF whom Is recognized as the first
photographer Wcdgewood, after several
years OK close study OF the art, on July
lo. 1902 published his paper. setting out
the results, which was entitled IAN ac-
count of a method OF copying paintings
upon glass and OF making proiles by the
agency OF light upon nitrate of silver"
Previous to this date, or as carly as
1727. German. who has been called
The Columbus. OF Photography OBJ
talncd copies OF writing by, placing the
written characters upon level surface
previously prepared with mixture OF
chalk and silver nitrate.
Wedgewood's article. which establisned
Journal OF the Royal Institute" 10
Davy, who was working along the same
line, credit Is due for his discovery that
silver chloride was moro sensitive than
tinued Investigations. Davy was urahle TO
find means by which the fading out of
the pictures could be prevented.
Other Investigators took up the subject
later, among whom may be mentioned
Joseph Nlepce and Daeuerre. in France
and William II. F, Talbot, in England.
IN lesa DaBuerre peSan MS experiments,
which led to the invention of his cele-
brated process. The earliest attempts at
Photographic engraving dates back to
1927, and was tho invention of Niepce,
who flrst discovered that thin plates Of
bitunen were curiously affected by light.
Daguerre received q pension OF 60GO
francs from the French government on
August 10, 1899. In consideration Of which
the details Of his process were given TO
tho world. Information of this invention
reached the United States in 1889.
through Samuel +, b Morse, who COM
municated it to- his colleague in the New
whom the first sunlight picture OF hu-
man face-that OF his sister, Dorothy
Draper-was made in 1Sf0,
The development OF the modern rapid
processes of photography may be Said to
have begun with the Introduction OF the
dry colodion process by Scott Archer In
1871; In 1871 Maddox introduced the
process which has since been consid
erably improved and is now used very
largely
The lens is Of very ancient origin,
There is a lens in the British museum.
which was found in the ruins Of Nj
neveh, and during the Middle Ages the
manufacture and properties OF sl1p)e
lenses were we'll understood In Europe.
The first camera made In England as far
as is known. was that by Mr.. Palmer OF
Newgate street, London, on Thc plan OF
Mr.. Fry and for him in 1889.
On July 10. 1861 the national house OF
representatives passed the first war loan
bill. and In 1890 Wyoming was admitted
to statehood in the Union. Today IS the
birthday of John Calvin the reformer
and theologian G50o): Sir William Black
stone, the English jurst G723); ST.
George Tucker. 'The Blackstone of
America" O752), George NJ. Dallas. vice
president of the United States and min
lister to England Q792); Capt. Frederick
Marryat. the naval officer and novelist
u792): Robert Toombs, the southern sol
dier and statesman OSLO: Benjamin
Paul Akers, the sculptor GS25), and
John w. Griggs, attoneygene under
Mckinley (1Si9). II is the date of the
death OF Catherine Carnaro Q510l: the
Emperor Adrian (13S), and William.
prince of Orange G5SD.