History Of Technology in Education

  Color Photography(1861)  *Maxwell develops the trichromatic process for producing color images. *Maxwell's composite image of three photographs shows tartan ribbon through filters of different colors. British mathematician and physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was a giant of nineteenth- century science. Best known for his Maxwell equations, which were the best insight into electromagnetism of their day, his interests also included Saturn's rings and the human perception of color. It was this latter interest that led to the first color photograph in 1861. In the manner of a true showman, Maxwell revealed his photograph of a tartan ribbon at the Royal Institution in London. His studies of human vision, including the condition of color blindness, had led him to conclude that color images were possible using a " trichromatic process ." He had arranged for his tartan ribbon to be shot by professional photographer Thomas Sutton, the inventor of the single-lens ref