Some of the earliest and most important instruments in the history of photography have just been acquired by the London Science Museum on loan from The Royal Photographic Society. They include three instruments used by Fox Talbot, the inventor of the first paper photographic process. These are a camera lucida, the use of which on the shores of Lake Como in 1833 first suggested to him that the invention of a sensitive paper would reeord such scenes more perfectly than sketches made by hand (this is the instrument mentioned in his "Pencil of Nature," published in 1844); Fox Talbot 's solar microscope, with which the earliest photomicrogTaphs on paper were produced, land a Culpepper type microscope of about 1820 *
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 31, 20 February 1937, Page 8
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119Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 31, 20 February 1937, Page 8
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