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Show The Inventor of the Camera.' Wherever one goes he is sure to' see the man or woman with the kodak capturing bits of scenery or homes of famous people for his collection of views. It is generally' thought that the camera is a new 'Invention, but it was really in use as far back as the middle of the sixteenth century, when an Italian named Battista Porta made use of a dark room. into, which , light was admitted- through!'a small hole -in I one corner. The rays made a brilliant ! picture on the opposite wall, where one '; could see the natural objects outside j reproduced as if. in a looking glass, although al-though they were upside down, as ' your" picture is in the lens of the ca- : mera when the photographed is posing I you, and as It was when, the polite son j of Erin asked: "My dear sir, wouldn't 1 it be easier for you to take my picture ! if I stood on my head?" I Porta finally improved; his little dark ' room by the use of mirrors and lenses until he had a real camera obscura; and this unknown Italian may be called the inventor of photography. |