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RefNoPT/68/6/2
LevelItem
TitlePlate, photographic apparatus controlling light exposure by unknown artist
Date[1862]
DescriptionFigures 1-4 from Plate IX showing an apparatus for exposing a photographic surface to light for specific amounts of time and an adaptation of the apparatus including a shade used in order to avoid moving the entire system into a dark room.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Photo-chemical researches.—Part V. On the direct measurement of the chemical action of sunlight'.

Received by the Royal Society on 11 November 1862. Read 11 December 1862.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 12, 1863.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionInk and ink wash diagrams on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1862.0069
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1863.0007
RelatedRecordRR/5/36
RR/5/139
PT/68/6
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8155Bunsen; Robert Wilhelm (1811 - 1899)1811 - 1899
NA8277Roscoe; Sir; Henry Enfield (1833 - 1915)1833 - 1915
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