Ever since the invention of the microscope, humanity has gained access to the world of the incredibly small. Scientists discovered that creatures never known to exist before are alive in an ...

READING, MASS. (WHDH) - One Reading High School teacher is bringing 19th-century photography to the classroom to show her students what photography was like before the invention of smartphones. “You ...

* Social document, art form – and a window onto the spirit world… 170 years since its invention, photography remains the main technology through which we understand and record the world. Camera phones ...

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Imagine stretching a piece of film to reveal a hidden message. Or checking an arm band’s color to gauge muscle mass. Or sporting a swimsuit that changes hue as you do laps. Such chameleon-like, ...

Photographs of slaves reveal much about the men who took them in this perceptive study of antebellum racial ideology. Historian Rogers examines a cache of daguerreotype portraits and nudes of South ...

Like many others, Maurene Cooper shifted her career focus during the pandemic, and she now creates one-of-a-kind Victoria era keepsakes. The Montgomery County artist launched Vanity Tintype in ...

The photograph in question is a historical recreation and artistic representation of 19th-century Jewish life unrelated to intimate wigs. Described as a "hauntingly nostalgic" photograph, the image of ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. What was life in America like a century or more ago? We ...

A new technique opens a door to manufacturing of pressure-monitoring bandages, shade-shifting fabrics, or touch-sensing robots Imagine stretching a piece of film to reveal a hidden message. Or ...