Charles Harper Bennett
Illustration — 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. Charles Harper Bennett (born 1840 in London, died 1927 in Sydney) was an English photographic pioneer.
Charles Harper Bennett
Charles Bennett? (1840 à Londres-1927 à Sydney) · Public domain
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- 1840 · Streatham.
- Died
- 1927 · Sydney.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · United Kingdom
- Occupation
- photographer · inventor
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Illustration — 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. Charles Harper Bennett (born 1840 in London, died 1927 in Sydney) was an English photographic pioneer.
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Born at Streatham in 1840, died in Sydney in 1927.
Charles Harper Bennett (1840–1927) was a British photographer and inventor.
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