Abstract

Photography in England

In point of fact, photography is in England reaching a commercial importance and productiveness well merited by the care and enterprise devoted to it. Numbers of intelligent amateurs give a large portion of their time to it; many of the public educational institutions have chairs of lecture devoted to it, whose occupants, accomplished photographic chemists, elaborate and employ the formulas and make the discoveries which have laid the basis of this mercantile success. Photography is as essential a part of a complete technical education for an engineer or surveyor as drawing; no scientific expedition is complete now without a photographer, and the recent improvements in mechanical and chemical appliances make his work far wore certain and far less laborious than it has been hitherto.