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Charles Harper Bennett

Charles Harper Bennett

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Charles Harper Bennett (born 1840 in London, died 1927 in Sydney) was an English photographic pioneer.

A mule keeps standing while its head is blown up with dynamite to demonstrate the speed of photography based on a new gelatin dry plate process by Charles Bennett. A photograph taken on 6 June 1881, published in Scientific American on September 24, 1881.

He improved the gelatin silver process developed by Richard Leach Maddox, first in 1873 by a method of hardening the emulsion, making it more resistant to friction, and later in 1878 Bennett discovered that by prolonged heating the sensitivity of the emulsion could be greatly increased.[1] This increased sensitivity resulting enabled shooting at 1/25 second, paving the way for the snapshot.

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  1. [1]
    Hannavy, John (16 December 2013). Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Routledge. p. 698. ISBN 978-1-135-87326-4.
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