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• W4383460596 abstract "technology and culture Book Reviews 525 Absolutely Mad Inventions. By A. E. Brown and H. A. Jeffcott, Jr. New York: Dover Publications, 1970. Pp. 125. $1.50. In 1932, Jeffcott and Brown published a small cloth-bound book called Beware of Imitations. It consisted entirely of reproductions of freak United States patents, some of them hilarious. Now Dover has reprinted the book in paperback under the above title. People pro­ fessionally interested in the history of technology and invention should welcome this lively addendum to an otherwise sobersided subject. Patents include a harness for trained eagles or buzzards to tow balloons; water wings for a horse; a combination of plow and cannon; a bullet with a vane to make it fly in a curve; a self-tipping hat; etc., etc. L. Sprague de Camp* The New DaguerreianJournal. Vol. 1, no. 3 (December 1971). Daguerreian Society, 1360 Haines Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210. $10.00 per annum. Climaxing more than a decade of developmental work by the French artist and dioramatist L. J. M. Daguerre, François Arago, the secretary of the Académie des sciences, made public in Paris in August 1839 the first commercial photographic process, the daguer­ reotype. During the first decade of the daguerreotype’s decade and a half of popularity, the scientific journals served as the principal vehicle of communication of the numerous chemical, optical, and mechanical improvements in photography. However, in the early 1850s, as natural philosophers gradually lost their initial interest in photography and as photography began to develop commercially, a number of independent journals appeared in the United States, France, and Great Britian. The first of these, the DaguerreianJournal, was published beginning in November 1850 by Samuel D. Hum­ phrey of New York. It catered to the commercial and technological interests of the professional daguerreotypist by providing com­ mercial news, technical advice, and original and reprinted articles on the technology and science related to photography. Historians of photography have found the Daguerreian Journal and other early publications such as Snelling’s Photographic Art Jour­ nal and Gaudin’s La lumière important sources for the last years of the daguerreotype period; yet the history of the first decade of the daguerreotype in the United States remains shrouded except for the *Mr. de Camp, of Villanova, Pennsylvania, is the author of The Heroic Age of American Invention and coauthor with Alf K. Berle of Inventions, Patents, and Their Management. 526 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AN1) CULTURE glimpses provided by the meticulous researches of Beaumont New­ hall (The Daguerreotype in America [1968]) and Robert Taft (Photog­ raphy and the American Scene [1938]). Therefore, those historians of technology particularly interested in photography and photo­ chemistry will welcome Mr. Walter Johnson’s efforts in establishing and editing the New Daguerreian Journal, which is devoted to the history of photography during the daguerreotype period. Appro­ priately both its title and format are patterned after the original Humphrey Journal. Unlike Image (published by the George Eastman House), which is directed broadly to the social, aesthetic, and technological history of photography, the New Daguerreian Journal is devoted almost ex­ clusively to technological and artifactual description. The small, handsome publication contains the first of four articles by Floyd and Marion Rinhart on various methods used to produce bust or vig­ nette backgrounds on daguerreotypes. The Rinharts, known for their book on the history of daguerreotype cases, provide in this issue an informative description of Charles Anthony’s patented procedure: the magic background process. Edward Lentz, of the Ohio Historical Society and the History Department of Ohio State University, provides a brief introduction to the use of local history materials as a means of obtaining information on obscure daguerreotypists . In the regular feature “Daguerrean Equipment Gallery,” a typical American-made camera of the early 1840s, equipped with a Voigtlander lens, is well illustrated and briefly described. This issue also contains two reprints: the continuation from the previous issue of J. H. Croucher’s description of the daguerreotype process, pub­ lished in 1855, and a short tribute to the qualities of the daguer­ reotype, reprinted from Century Magazine. Forthcoming issues are to include articles on a reinterpretation of the Levi Hill controversy and on John..." @default.
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