A camera with a single piece of glass or loaded with single pieces of film coated with light-sensitive chemicals. These cameras had to be loaded in the dark and were capable of taking a single shot. Photographs made using this camera were developed using two techniques — the wet plate collodion method and the dry plate method.
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An acidic solution that is used to stop the development of photographic film once it is sufficiently developed. It acts…
A transparency projector used to produce photographic prints from negatives and transparencies. Enlarging became popular in the mid to late…
Film cameras that produce images that are 9 cm x 12 cm or larger.
A pit loom with four shafts or harnesses that support the healds through which the warp threads are passed. The…
A vertical loom predominantly used to weave carpets in India, Iran and Turkey. The loom consists of two moveable beams…
A technology for drilling developed during the Mature Phase (c. 2600–1900 BCE) of the Indus Valley Civilisation. It was made…
Camera lens whose focal distance is pre-determined at the time of manufacture and cannot be adjusted by the user. It…
A nineteenth-century method of producing photographic negatives using a glass plate coated with a silver emulsion. While relatively inexpensive and…