“The first light Picture ever taken. 1839.”
In October of 1839 a 30-year-old amateur photographer and chemist named Robert Cornelius set up his camera outside, close to his family’s lighting fixture store in Philadelphia. He removed the lens cap, ran over and sat in front of the camera for about a minute, and then put the lens cap back. He had just […]
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