Engraved Expressly for the Photographic Art Journal
1851; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
Autores
Robert Hunt, N. P. Lerebours, W. R. Grove, H. F. Talbot, R. W. Keyes, J. K. Fisher, N. G. Burgess, Charles V. Walker,
ResumoEssay: The Daguerrean Journal, The Carbon Battery, Daguerreotype Chemistry, [With This Communication Were Sent Plates Etched by the Process Detailed in the Text; Electrotype Copies from the Same; and a Considerable Number of Prints Obtained from the Former], Engraved Expressly for the Photographic Art Journal, Electrical Means for Obtaining Pure Hydrogen, Calcium and Its Compounds, Substitute for Plumbago, We Have so Many Inquiries regarding the Time for Making the Hillotype Process Public, That It Is Impossible for Us to Answer Them All Personally, We Have Heretofore Been Unable to Comply with the Request of Many Dealers in Daguerreotype Stock and of Daguerrean Artists to Insert Their Advertisements in the Journal for Want of Space, as We Devote Our Cover Only to That Purpose, The Messrs. Lewis Have Just Completed a Decided Improvement in the Camera Box, in Principle Similar to One Got up Two Years Ago by Mr. Whipple of Boston, Luther Holman Hale and the Daguerrean Art, "Who Shall Decide When Doctors Disagree", Mr. Ponton's Paper, Gossip, Our Semi-Anual Subscribers Will Please Remember That the Present Number of the Journal Closes Their Term of Subscription, Recorded Facts Serve as Much to the Advancement of the Sciences as Theories; We Must Not, Therefore, Be Much Surprised at Seeing Collected, with so Much Care, a Multiplicity of Experiments, Which at First Sight Appear Only Curious; but the Whole of Which, Taken Together, May in Reality Serve to Establish Theories, and Consequently to Give the Explanation of a Great Number of Isolated Facts, Chapter II The Aeration of Plants, It Gives Us Pleasure to State That a Movement Is Now on Foot to Organize a National Photographic Society, Multiple Essay Items, The Hillotype, Patent Electro-Cloth, Mr. Bayard's Paper, While We Are Speaking on the Subject of Improvements, We Will Call Attention to Two New Articles Invented by a Mr. Kingsley, and for the Sale of Which Mr. Anthony, 308 Broadway, N. Y., Has Been Appointed Sole Agent, We Have Received the Following Anonymous Communication, Which We Publish for the Valuable Hint It Conveys. Frontmatter: The Photographic Art-Journal. Fiction, drama: Chapter XXV Miscellaneous, Chapter III Magnetising Power of the Solar Rays, On the Action of Light on Inorganic Bodies Chapter I On Phosphorescence, Researches on Light Part II The Influence of the Solar Rays on Compound Bodies, with Especial Reference to Their Photographic, Electrotype Manipulations Part I, Chapter XXI On Engraving, Chapter II Influence of the Solar Rays on Chemical Combination, Treatise on Photography; Containing the Latest Discoveries and Improvements Appertaining to the Daguerreotype With a Preface, Notes and Alterations, by H. H. Snelling Chapter XX On the Reproduction of the Proofs, Chapter XXIV On the Transfer of the Proofs, Chapter XXII On a Voltaic Process for Etching Daguerreotype Plates. By W. R. Grove, Esq., M. A., F. R. S., Professor …, Chapter XXIII Photogenic Papers.—On the Calotype. Letter to the editor: The American Art-Union.
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