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Article: Picture this: scientist? Businessman? The inventor who popularized photography spent his fortune well.(George Eastman)
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- Mechanical Engineering-CIME
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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The adage that a picture is worth a thousand words is a flawed understatement. Our memories, knowledge, and opinions rely heavily on pictures. Words can only provide an explanation to information contained in a good picture. Time always moves forward, but a picture allows us to look back to some prior moment in time.
Today we take it for granted: We make moving or still images, store them as magnetic patterns, and share them by e-mail. Those old enough to be out of college clearly remember the previous generation of photography, involving spools of film instead of floppy discs, when resolution was determined by emulsion instead of memory. The Instamatic and the ...