Jericho Historical Society snowflakebentley.com snowflakebentley.com Buffalo Museum of Science (Biography): www.bentley.sciencebuff.org Buffalo Museum of Science (process photography) www.bentley.sciencebuff.org commons.wikimedia.org vermontsnowflakes. com www.jacquelinebriggsmartin.com ------------------ en.wikipedia.org Wilson Alwyn "Snowflake" Bentley (July 2, 1865 - December 23, 1931), in Jericho born in the U.S. state of Vermont is the first known photographer of snowflakes.He perfected the process of catching flakes on black velvet in such a way that their images captured before they either melted or sublimated. He was first interested in snow crystals as a teenager on his family farm. He tried to draw what he through an old microscope, which his mother when he saw was fifteen. Snowflake were too difficult to measure before they melted, so he enters into a compound microscope, camera and bellows after much experimentation, photographed hisfirst snowflakes 15th ledna 1885th He would capture over 5000 images of crystals in his lifetime. Each crystal was transferred on board and quickly caught the film. Even in freezing temperatures snowflakes are ephemeral, because to sublimate them. Bentley's work can be seen as an occupying power in the intersection of art and science. Bentley poetically described the snowflakes as small miracles of beauty "and snow crystals as" ice flowers ". Bentley's work gained attention in...
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