Early Lightning Photograph Massachusetts,1888

by Alfred H. Binden

$12,000 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

ONE OF THE EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPHS OF LIGHTNING. This striking photograph by Alfred H. Binden 1837 England - 1892 United States is among one of the earliest photographs of lightning. When Binden captured the image from his home in Wakefield, Massachusetts during a summer storm in 1888, he created a valuable tool for better understanding the natural phenomenon that was often referred to as “electric fluid” in that time.The

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