Carl August von Steinheil
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Carl August von Steinheil was an Alsatian physicist, inventor, engineer and astronomer.
Carl August Steinheil
Reading telescopes by C.A. Steinheil purchased in 1865 on display in the Teylers Instrument Room
Wolfgang Franz von Kobell
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Wolfgang Xavier Franz Ritter von Kobell was a German mineralogist and writer of short stories and poems in Bavarian dialect.
Carl August von Steinheil
…process has been commonly attributed to Steinheil, but research published in 2024 revealed that the earliest paper negatives had actually been created by Wolfgang Franz von Kobell in 1837, without any involvement of Steinheil. Steinheil was one of the first to use the daguerreotype in Germany. By December 1839, he made the first…
Franz von Kobell (1857)
Early silver chloride paper photograph of Munich Frauenkirche, 1837
Monument for Franz von Kobell in the Alter Südfriedhof, Munich