A short time ago I posted some amazing and beautiful photographs taken by the Hubble Telescope on its voyage through space and sent back to us here on Earth. Yesterday I reprinted an article about a space probe that is about to land in outback Australia after a 4 billion kilometre journey to an asteroid where it landed, investigated and returned, with repairs also being carried out from home. TV sets are now being sold that are 3D.
What makes all this so much more amazing is that the above image, The Window at Le Gras dating from 1825, only 185 years ago, is the earliest known surviving photograph. It was created by Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833), a French inventor and pioneer in the field of photography, as a result of his experiments to find a way of preserving images in that his hand was not steady enough to copy the inverted images from his camera obscura.
