Great Victorian Inventions by Rochford Caroline

Author:Rochford, Caroline
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781445636450
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Published: 2013-06-04T00:00:00+00:00

Deep-Sea Photography (1887)

A gentleman named Mr William Thompson was credited with capturing the first ever underwater photograph in 1856. At that time, however, the technology was not particularly advanced and the photograph was said to be rather unclear.

By 1887 submarine experiments were underway once more, when the French attempted to take well-defined underwater photographs for the first time. Their arsenal consisted simply of an electric incandescent light and an ordinary camera sealed inside a watertight box. Sunken ships were the proposed subjects, and it was expected that, if the technology could be developed, such cameras would prove useful to deep-sea divers of the future.

Sadly for the French, these marine experiments did not quite go according to plan, and the advent of underwater photography did not come about until 1893, when the Versailles-born photographer Monsieur Louis Boutan (1859–1934) developed fully waterproof cameras complete with flashlights.

Long-Distance Photography (1887)

It was the French who were leading the way in the race to perfect the art of photography. Before the 1890s a photographer named Monsieur Marey discovered that it was possible to capture instantaneous photographs in a 2,000th of a second, and he hoped to reduce this still further.

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