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Obviously, the next major progression in the advancement of film is adding sound — music and conversation — to make the film experience more like the world we actually live in. Interestingly, this had actually been done near the very beginning of the silent movie era.
If the magic lantern and Phantasmagoria were the grandfather of film, it’s mother was a busy woman. Throughout the late 1800s, a flurry of activity took place around making moving pictures. The first systems, like the phenakistoscope (shown above) and zoetrope placed a sequence of images between slits. The viewer would spin the disc or wheel and look through the slits. This would break up the view so that the image appeared to move. These actually go back to the BC days. In 1877, a similar system was coupled with a magic lantern to project the image onto a screen or wall. Now an entire audience could get dizzy. About the same time, film sensitivities improved and the Lumiere Brothers invented the dry plate process. Now film was getting to a point where actual moving images could be captured. Oh the hippy ’60s. How I long sometimes to have been a part of you. Men going to the moon, computers becoming more electronicised, and experimental drug use automotive design. The Gyro-X was a car designed by ex-Ford Advanced Styling chief Alex Tremulis for a startup car company called Gyro Transport Systems. That’s [...]
Once the process of taking photos started to be ironed out, people wanted to do more than stare at Oreo’s and wanted to see in color. Color photography actually stretches back to the mid-1800s. The first permanent color photograph was taken in 1861 by taking three separate black and white photos through red, green and blue filters, respectively. Then color would be added or subtracted, depending on the method used. Monochromatic Goodness After the inventions of the daguerreotype and calotype processes in the mid-1800s, the technology behind photography really started to advance. In 1839, English scientist John Herschel informed Talbot and Daguerre of a process to fix images by using silver halides rather than the mercury fumes they had been using. Probably a [...]  First photograph of a person. Watch your souls. Following the progress of technology can be pretty interesting. The camera obscura we looked at yesterday played a huge role in the development of the first camera photography. Up until the 1820s, the camera obscura would allow artists to project and image and paint it. However, our modern idea of photography is a photochemical process. That process did come along until Nicéphore Niépce created the first photograph in 1822 when he used a camera obscura to project an image on a plate with bitumen. The bitumen would harden as it was exposed to light and then the soft bitumen could be washed away. Exposure times were measured in hours and possibly days. How most of us add torque when we need it. I guess that the Crocs add grip? Greetings everyone. This weekend I came across a lot of videos a buttload of videos on YouTube about jet engines, and I spent far, far too much time watching them. I can now, however, properly blend [...]  Illustration of camera obscura from a military design manuscript. Probably 17th century Italian The history of photography stretches all the way back to the BC era. In fact, the first method for capturing images is nothing like what we use today. It’s called camera obscura and stretches all the way back to a Chinese philosopher named Mozi who lived from 470 to 390 BC. In his writings, he described what would become known as the camera obscura calling it a “locked treasure room”. Not long after, Aristotle observed the same principles of the camera obscura whilst observing a solar eclips through the light image projected on the ground from the holes in a sieve. Euclid used the camera obscura as his basis for how light travels in Optics. Centuries later, da Vinci would describe the camera obscura in his works, and Johannes Kepler would use the term “camera obscura” the first time in 1604.
Along the way to the modern ejection seat systems from companies like Martin-Baker, other systems have been developed or talked about. Among these sidetracks in the world of pilot safety are some really great ideas (zero/zero ejection seats) and some really bad ideas (Downward Track ejection systems). |
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