Charles Harper Bennett

Charles Harper Bennett
Born1840 Edit this on Wikidata
Clapham Park Edit this on Wikidata
Died1927 Edit this on Wikidata
Sydney Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationPhotographer Edit this on Wikidata

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

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. This increased sensitivity resulting enabled shooting at 1/25 second, paving the way for the snapshot.

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.

References

  1. ↑ Louis Walton Sipley (1965), Photography's Great Inventors, LCCN 65-28010, Wikidata Q141616152, page 36-37.
  2. ↑ Hannavy, John (16 December 2013). Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Routledge. p. 698. ISBN 978-1-135-87326-4.