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Fr brown took first pictures of Titanic
Francis Browne was a distinguished Irish Jesuit and a prolific photographer. In April 1912, he received a gift from his uncle.: A ticket for the maiden voyage of RMS Titanic from Southampton, England to Queenstown, Ireland. . Browne took dozens of photographs of life aboard Titanic on that day and the next morning; he shot pictures of the gymnasium, the Marconi room, the first-class dining saloon, his own cabin, and of passengers enjoying walks on the Promenade and Boat decks. -
Colored photos 1 year before WWI
This photo is from 1913, one year before world War 1 started. They have a modern feel and a likely quality. They were taken using the procerss known as Autochrome. It was invented by the Lumiere Brothers. It was the ealiest widely available color photography technique. -
Babe Ruth enters baseball league, first real baseball card photo taken
was an American professional baseball player whose career in the MLB, spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. He began his MLB career as a left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. He was the first real MLB player to have an actual picture on his baseball card, not a drawing. -
Paul Strand and Straight Photography
Originating as early as 1904, the term was used by critic Sadakichi Hartmann in the magazine Camera Work, and later promoted by its editor, Alfred Stieglitz, as a more pure form of photography than Pictorialism. It is used to see more contrast and rich tonality,and sharp focus. -
Albert Einstein completes his mathematical formulation of a general theory of relativity, which includes gravity
mass–energy equivalence is the concept that the mass of an object or system is a measure of its energy content. An alternative version of Einstein's thought experiment was proposed by Fritz Rohrlich (1990), who based his reasoning on the Doppler effect.
