Wheatstone's double vision

Abstract

In his article on Henry Collen, Larry Schaaf mentions the epoch-making production of the first successful calotype stereo portrait, a study of Charles Babbage taken on 17th August 18411. The events leading up to that session cast a fresh light on the process of trial-and-error by which the new medium of photography necessarily advanced. They also demonstrate that the honour of applying photography to the stereoscope rightly belongs to the inventor of the reflecting stereoscope himself, Charles Wheatstone.

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