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A few of the words
- PLATE
- Jennings used a glass photographic plate coated with a light-sensitive emulsion, the standard medium for serious photography in 1882, long before flexible film became common.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- BRANCH
- The photograph's great revelation was the branching, tree-like structure of the bolt, a geometry invisible to the unaided eye in the fraction of a second lightning lasts.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- ELECTRIC
- Lightning is a massive electrostatic discharge, with a single bolt carrying hundreds of millions of volts, a force Jennings could now show the world in frozen detail.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CAPTURE
- Jennings's achievement in Philadelphia on July 9, 1882 proved that the camera could do what no human eye could: capture and hold a single, fleeting bolt of lightning.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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The First Photograph of Lightning: a free large-print word search
Lightning word search, free and large-print: in 1882, William Jennings caught a bolt on film in Philadelphia, all jagged branches, no fork the same.
About The First Photograph of Lightning
On July 9, 1882, amateur astronomer William Nicholson Jennings pointed his camera at a stormy Philadelphia sky and made history, capturing the first successful photograph of a lightning bolt. Before that night, the branching, jagged structure of a lightning strike existed only as a blur in living memory, gone before the eye could truly study it. Jennings's glass plate held the bolt still at last, turning a wild electric moment into something the world could finally see, measure, and marvel at.
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