Ignazio Porro
{{short description|19th-century, Italian, optics inventor}}
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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."[http://www2.uni-jena.de/philosophie/medien/MovingStills/eng_personen_vanvolsem.html How strip-photography complicated the interpretation of the still photographic image] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202232715/http://www2.uni-jena.de/philosophie/medien/MovingStills/eng_personen_vanvolsem.html |date=2013-12-02 }}", Maarten Vanvolsem
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Works
- {{Cite book|title=Tachéometrie, ou L'art de lever des plans et de faire les nivellements avec beaucoup de précision et une économie de temps considerable |volume=|publisher=Dalmont|location=Paris|year=1858|language=fr|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=676685}}
- {{Cite book|title=Manuale pratico di geodesia moderna|volume=|publisher=Tipografia e litografia degli ingegneri|location=Milano|year=1869|language=it|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=6734886}}
External links
- [http://microscopy.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/porro.html Biography of Ignazio Porro] at the FSU Molecular Expressions website
- [http://www.zeiss.com/c12567a100537ab9/Contents-Frame/209b97efa7974715c12569cf00486f72 Information about Porro at the Carl Zeiss website]
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Category:19th-century Italian inventors
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