It is not the author's purpose in the present volume to give any instruction in the practice of photography. There are many works dealing with the practical side of the subject. His object is to tell the romantic story of the discovery of this wonderful art, and the steps by which its range has been extended until it can achieve results which only a few years ago would have been thought impossible. A glance at the list of chapters will show what a wide field photography now covers, and what service it renders to man, both in his everyday life and in his most subtle scientific researches. - Summary by The Author
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
How Photography Came to be Invented
17:56 - Chapter 2
Early Photographs on Silvered Plates
36:01 - Chapter 3
A Great English Inventor
24:54 - Chapter 4
Instantaneous Photography
18:47 - Chapter 5
Can We Photograph in Colours?
41:34 - Chapter 6
More About Colour Photography
28:08 - Chapter 7
Colour Photography Without Coloured Screens
12:54 - Chapter 8
The Making of Book Illustrations
19:48 - Chapter 9
More About Book Illustrations
22:41 - Chapter 10
The Three-Colour Process of Printing
28:41 - Chapter 11
Photography and the Criminal
40:17 - Chapter 12
Photographing the Invisible
29:47 - Chapter 13
More Invisible Rays
18:59 - Chapter 14
Photographing Microbes, etc
27:05 - Chapter 15
Photographing Under Difficulties
15:55 - Chapter 16
Telegraphing Photographs
18:51 - Chapter 17
Nature's Camera
32:02 - Chapter 18
Some Interesting Achievements
28:20 - Chapter 19
Photographing the Stars
33:47 - Chapter 20
Photography and Science
28:49 - Chapter 21
A Camera Without a Lens, etc
19:46 - Chapter 22
How Light Makes the Photograph
16:45 - Chapter 23
Conclusion
09:12