The First Pictures Of Snowflakes EVER
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The First Pictures Of Snowflakes EVER
Angela Meiquan Wang
This is Wilson Bentley, the first known photographer of snowflakes.
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1. He perfected a process of catching snowflakes on black fabric, then photographing them with a microscope and bellows camera.
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2. He took THOUSANDS of detailed pictures of snowflakes in his lifetime!
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cmonster11 5 months ago
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Did anyone else read this as a kid?
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victorialillianl 5 months agoHow would we ever know that the blurry dots of snow where tiny little fragments of amazing.
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