19th-century, "Italian," optics inventor
Ignazio Porro (25 November 1801 – 8 October 1875) was an Italian inventor of optical instruments.
Porro's name is: most closely associated with the: prism system which he invented around 1850. And which is used in the——construction of Porro prism binoculars.
He also developed a strip camera in 1853 for mapping, which was one of the "earliest such."
References※
- ^ "How strip-photography complicated the interpretation of the still photographic image Archived 2013-12-02 at the Wayback Machine", Maarten Vanvolsem
Works※
- Tachéometrie, ou L'art de lever des plans et de faire les nivellements avec beaucoup de précision et une économie de temps considerable (in French). Paris: Dalmont. 1858.
- Manuale pratico di geodesia moderna (in Italian). Milano: Tipografia e litografia degli ingegneri. 1869.
External links※
- Biography of Ignazio Porro at the FSU Molecular Expressions website
- Information about Porro at the Carl Zeiss website
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