Category Archives: Photography

Moon Shot

Posted on January 2, 2012 by GilPress

Today in 1839, Louis Daguerre took the first photograph of the Moon. In December 1839, John W. Draper made a daguerreotype of the moon with the camera he built, becoming the first person in the US to photograph a celestial body.

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Aerial Photography First Patent

Posted on December 12, 2011 by GilPress

Today in 1893, the first US patent for aerial photography is issued to Cornele B. Adams of Augusta, Georgia (US No. 510,758).  His method of photogrammetry can produce a topographic map by means of photographing the same tract of land … Continue reading →

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First Tornado Photograph

Posted on August 28, 2011 by GilPress

Today in 1884, the first known photograph of a tornado was taken near Howard, South Dakota. The tornado may have inspired L. Frank Baum to include one in his book, The Wizard of Oz, for he was a news reporter in nearby Aberdeen.

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Star Photography

Posted on July 17, 2011 by GilPress

Today in 1850, the first daguerreotype of a star (Vega) was taken. Between 1847 and 1852  William Cranch Bond and pioneer photographer John Adams Whipple used the Great Refractor telescope to produce images of the moon that are remarkable in their clarity of detail and aesthetic … Continue reading →

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InfoStory Quote: Inventing “The Mirror with a Memory”

Posted on March 5, 2011 by GilPress

“The Daguerreotype… has fixed the most fleeting of our illusions, that which the apostle and the philosopher and the poet have alike used as the type of instability and unreality. The photograph has completed the triumph, by making a sheet … Continue reading →

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InfoStory Meetings: Morse and Daguerre

Posted on March 5, 2011 by GilPress

Today in 1839, Samuel F. B. Morse and Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre met in Daguerre’s studio, in Paris, France. 

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This Day In Information: First Photo Studio

Posted on March 4, 2011 by GilPress

Today in 1840, Alexander S. Wolcott and John Johnson opened the first commercial photography studio in New York. 

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This Day In Information: Pioneering Photography

Posted on January 25, 2011 by GilPress

Today in 1839, William Henry Fox Talbot showed his five-year old pictures at the Royal Society, 18 days after the Daguerreotype process was presented before the French Academy.

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This Day In Information: The Birth of the Photography Industry

Posted on January 7, 2011 by GilPress

Today in 1839, the Daguerreotype process was presented to the French Academy of Sciences by Francois Arago, a physicist and politician. Arago told the Academy that it was “…indispensable that the Government should compensate M. Daguerre, and that France should … Continue reading →

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This Day in Information: First Daguerreotypes

Posted on December 18, 2010 by GilPress

Today in 1839,  John W. Draper made a daguerreotype of the moon with the camera he built, becoming the first person in the US to photograph a celestial body. Around the same time, he also made what may be the … Continue reading →

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