Abstract
EVER since the year 1845, when Friedrich v. Martens, a copper-plate engraver living in Paris, constructed a camera with a rotating lens and arrangements for a curved plate for taking panoramic views, this method of working has engaged the attention of photographers. Martens's apparatus was designed for Daguerreotype plates, but the convenience of flexible films for such work must very soon have been appreciated, for in 1850 we find Fox Talbot taking the trouble to state that one of his sensitive papers was particularly well adapted for the purpose.
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J., C. The Panoram Kodak . Nature 63, 261 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/063261a0
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