Skaife's Pistolgraph Depot (32 Sussex Place, Regent's Park)
1858, 28 July (taken) 1864 (or later, printed)
Bomb shell in transitu.
[The Glasgow Photographic Association Album (1860-1880)]

Carte de visite, back
University of Glasgow, Library
BOMB SHELL in Transitu.
 
Reproduced from a Stereogram taken of the last firing of the Monster Mortar, on Plumstead Marshes, the 28th July, 1858, by T. SKAIFE, from whom a Letter was Published in "The Times" 14 days previously, (14 July,) calling attention to the Likeness of a Human Head, which invariously appeared in the Photographed outline of the Smoke from a Mortar when executed rapidly at a certain phase of the Smoke's Expansion. In this instance the Smoke's outline (above which one inch to the right is seen the Shell's dark track) represents a Head in Fur Cap with Profile of Face in Shadow. The Original Negative from which this Carte was reproduced, was accidently broken in 1862, in the presence of Sir D. BEWSTER, as authenticated by this Gentleman, in a Letter addressed to the Patentee, 24th November 1864.
 
This Bomb Shell in its flight was obtained by the first successful application of "The Trigger" as used subsequently in the Pistolograph.
 
Skaife's Patent Pistolgraph Depot, 32 Sussex Place, Regent's Park.
 
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