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Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
Scroll through our archive images that show the process of the Hannibal Bridge being built in Kansas City in the late 1860s. It’s rare to have so many photographs in The Star’s archive from ...
The 1860s (pronounced "eighteen-sixties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1860 and ended on December 31, 1869. The decade was noted for featuring numerous major societal shifts in the Americas .
May 31 – Peter Vivian Daniel, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1841 to 1860 (born 1784) June 6 – Henry P. Haun, U.S. Senator from California from 1859 to 1860 (born 1815) July 1 – Charles Goodyear, inventor (born 1800) September 12 – William Walker, filibuster, briefly President of Nicaragua, executed (born 1824)
Sullivan was born in Putney, South West London to Michael Sullivan, an Irish art teacher at a Roman Catholic school in Mortlake, and Mary Anne (née Melady). He was the second eldest son and third eldest of twelve children. In the early 1870s, the family moved north to Kendal, Westmoreland before moving again to Hastings, Sussex later in the ...
Pages in category "Houses completed in 1860" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 342 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A moving shutter was synchronized to ensure the plates were only exposed when they were in the right place. [1] [2] [3] Specific date unknown: In 1861, the American engineer Coleman Sellers II received US patent No. 35,317 for the kinematoscope, a device that exhibited "stereoscopic pictures as to make them represent objects in motion". In his ...
1860 – On 27 February 1860, Peter Hubert Desvignes received British patent no. 537 for 28 monocular and stereoscopic variations of cylindrical stroboscopic devices, much like the later zoetrope. His devices included a version that used an endless band of pictures running between two spools which was intermittently lit by an electric spark. [13]