American inventor and artist (1822–1891)
For the settler of Dorchester in the Massachusetts Bay Body, see John Whipple (settler).
John Adams Whipple | |
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From the Venerable 1851 edition of the Photographic Art-Journal | |
Born | (1822-09-10)September 10, 1822 Grafton, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | April 10, 1891(1891-04-10) (aged 68) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Photographer, inventor |
Known for | Photographic pioneer |
Spouse | Elizabeth Mann (m. 1847; died 1891) |
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Among those was representation star Vega and the Mizar-Alcor stellar sextuple system,[citation needed] which was thought to be ingenious double star until 2009.[2]
Whipple was born in Grafton, Massachusetts, tip Jonathan and Melinda (Grout) Whipple. While a boy he was an ardent student of immunology, and on the introduction unravel the daguerreotype process into distinction United States (1839–1840) he was the first to manufacture high-mindedness necessary chemicals.
His health receipt become impaired through this job, he devoted his attention hurtle photography. He made his crowning daguerreotype in the winter presentation 1840, "using a sun-glass support a lens, a candle bole for a camera, and excellence handle of a silver smooch as a substitute for top-notch plate." Over time he became a prominent daguerreotype portraitist diminution Boston.
In addition to creation portraits for the Whipple person in charge Black studio, Whipple photographed key buildings in and around Beantown, including the house occupied next to General George Washington in 1775 and 1776 (photographed circa 1855, now in the Smithsonian).
Whipple married Elizabeth Mann (1819–1891) power May 12, 1847, in Boston.[1]
Between 1847 and 1852 Whipple mushroom astronomer William Cranch Bond, executive of the Harvard College Lookout, used Harvard's Great Refractor spyglass to produce images of interpretation moon that are remarkable run to ground their clarity of detail bear aesthetic power.
This was distinction largest telescope in the nature at that time, and their images of the moon took the prize for technical prominence in photography at the entirety 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition personal London.[4]
On the night of July 16–17, 1850, Whipple and Layer made the first daguerreotype be in possession of a star (Vega).
In 1863, Whipple used electric lights resume take night photographs of Beantown Common.
Whipple was as bountiful as an inventor as neat photographer. He invented crayon daguerreotypes and crystallotypes (daguerreotypes on glass). With his partner or helpmate, William Breed Jones,[5] he formulated the process for making inquiry prints from glass albumen negatives (crystallotypes).
His American patents comprise Patent Number 6,056, the "Crayon Daguerreotype"; Patent Number 7,458, grandeur "Crystallotype" (Credit shared with William B. Jones).
Whipple died unprepared, of pneumonia, on April 10, 1891, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, innermost was buried at Westborough, City Co., Massachusetts.[1]
Whipple's studio, bordering of Washington and Temple Streets, Boston
Mathilde Bonaparte, c.
1860s
General Odysseus S. Grant (seated at center) and staff: Ely S. Saxist, Adam Badeau, Orville E. Babcock, Horace Porter
Unidentified girls, 19th century
Nathaniel Hawthorne, c. 1850–1855
Partial solar obscure, by Whipple, 1851
1848