Posted on 10/28/2010 7:18:43 PM PDT by roses of sharon
This photograph of Boulevard du Temple in Paris was made in 1838 by Louis Daguerre, the brilliant guy that invented the daguerreotype process of photography. Aside from its distinction of being a super early photograph, it’s also the first photograph to ever include a human being. Because the image required an exposure time of over ten minutes, all the people, carriages, and other moving things disappear from the scene. However, in the bottom left hand corner is a man who just so happened to stay somewhat still during the shot — he was having his shoes shined.
LOL, another one!
See post #60.
The reference to “Scalosian” water is the premise of the ST episode. Those who drank the water sped up to phenomenal speeds. Google the series and the term for further information.
Hmmm...My great-grandfather was born in 1833 and fought in the Civil War. His youngest son, my grandfather, was born in 1879. I'm 60.
Wow.. So your great-grandfather was 46 when his youngest son (your grandfather) was born, and your grandfather was 71 when you were born. Okay, that works. Lots of late parenting in your family. In my family, most kids were born when the parents were in their 20s.
FRegards,
LH
Yeah, my parents married in 1941, but WWII got in the way and I was their first born in 1950.
Those early images were made with a similar process to pinhole photography. There is no shutter, so the exposure times are very long.
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