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(IBW), the country’s flagship series of blockchain and Web3 events held in Bangalore from Dec.4-10, is delighted to announce that the attendees are going to have unparalleled opportunities for networking, collaboration, and discussion at the weeklong festival. BANGALORE, India, November 29th, 2023/Chainwire/-- India Blockchain Week There will be over 60 conferences, hackathons, networking events, workshops, a demo day and more. The IBW will be a platform where blockchain builders, investors, TradFi executives, policymakers, and crypto-curious newcomers from India and around the world come together to discover the future of DeFi, crypto, dApps, and explore the impact of Web3 on finance and culture. IBW presents an unparalleled gateway for participants to engage with their most-admired thought leaders, experts and influencers in the blockchain ecosystem. 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Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 by Various, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book . LOUIS FAVRE, CONSTRUCTOR OF THE ST. GOTHARD TUNNEL. here LOUIS FAVRE, CONSTRUCTOR OF THE ST. GOTHARD TUNNEL. It is now already a year that the locomotive has been rolling over the St. Gothard road, crossing at a flash the distance separating Basle from Milan, and passing rapidly from the dark and damp defiles of German Switzerland into the sun lit plains of Lombardy. Our neighbors uproariously fêted the opening of this great international artery, which they consider as their personal and exclusive work, as well from a technical point of view as from that of the economic result that they had proposed to attain—the creation of a road which, in the words of Bismarck, "glorifies no other nation." As regards the piercing of the Gothard, the initiative does, in fact, belong by good right to the powerful "Iron Chancellor," so we have never dreamed of robbing Germany of the glory (and it is a true glory) of having created the second of the great transalpine routes, that open to European products a new gate to the Oriental world. It seems to us, however, that in the noisy concert of acclamations that echoed during the days of the fêtes over the inauguration of the line, a less modest place might have been made for those who, with invincible tenacity and rare talent, directed the technical part of the work, and especially those 15 kilometers of colossal boring—the great St. Gothard Tunnel, which ranks in the history of great public works side by side with the piercing of the Frejus, and the marvelous digging of Suez and Panama. We recall just now the names of those who, during nearly ten years, have contributed with entire disinterestedness to the completion of this colossal work. Over all stands a figure of very peculiar originality—that of M. Louis Favre, the general contractor of the great tunnel, whose name will remain attached to the creation of this work through the Helvetian Alps, like that of Sommeiller to the great tunnel of the Frejus, and that of De Lesseps to the artificial straits that henceforward join the oceans. Having myself had the honor of occupying the position of general secretary of the enterprise under consideration, I have been enabled to make a close acquaintance with the man who was so remarkable in all respects, and who, after passing his entire life in great public works, died like a soldier on the field of honor—in the depths of the tunnel. I saw Favre, for the first time, in Geneva, in 1872, a few days after he had assumed the responsibility of undertaking the great work. He had been living since the war on his magnificent Plongeon estate, on the right bank of the lake. There was no need of dancing attendance in order to reach the contractor of the greatest work that has been accomplished up to the present time, for M. Favre was easy of access. We had scarcely passed five minutes together than we we were conversing as we often did later after an acquaintance of six years. After making known to him the object of my visit, the desire of being numbered among the of his enterprise, the conversation quickly took that turn of mirthfulness that was at the bottom of Favre's character. "This is the first time," said he to me, laughing, "that I ever worked with Germans, and I had not yet struck the first blow of the pick on the Gothard when they began to quibble about our contract of the 8th of last August. Ah! that agreement of August 8th! How I had to change and re-change it, later on. If this thing continues, we shall have a pretty quarrel, considering that I do not understand a word of the multiple interpretations of their . I ought to have mistrusted this. But you see I have remained inactive during the whole of this unfortunate war. I was not made for promenading in the paths of a garden, and I should have died of chagrin if such inaction had had to be prolonged. When one lives, as I have, for thirty years around lumber yards, it is difficult to accustom one's self to the sedentary and secluded life that I have led here for nearly two years." personnel charabia As he said, with just pride, Louis Favre had, indeed, before becoming the first contractor of public works in the world, lived for a long time in lumber yards. The years that so many other better instructed but less learned persons, who were afterward to gladly accept his authority, had given up to their studies, Favre had passed in the humble shop of his father, a carpenter at Chêne, a small village at a half league from Geneva. It soon becoming somewhat irksome for him in the village, he left the paternal workbench to start on what is called the "tour of France." He was then eighteen years of age. Three years afterward, he was undertaking small works. It was not long ere he was remarked by the engineers conducting the latter, and he was soon called to give his advice on all difficult questions. Between times, Favre had courageously studied the principal bases of such sciences as were to be useful to him. In the evening, he made up at the public school what was lacking in his early instruction; not that he hoped to make a complete study for an engineer, but only to learn the indispensable. He was, before all things, a practical man, who made up for the enforced insufficiency of his technical knowledge by a of surprising accuracy. Here it may be said to me that the piercing of the great St. Gothard Tunnel was accompanied by considerable loss. That is true, but it must be recalled also that this colossal work was accomplished amid the most insurmountable difficulties which ever presented themselves. In spite of this, the cost of the tunnel per running foot was also a third less than that of the great Mont Cenis Tunnel. coup d'œil When Favre undertook the St. Gothard, he already reckoned to his credit numerous victories in the domain of public works, especially in the construction of subterranean ones. The majority of tunnels of any length which, since the beginning of the establishment of railways, have been considered as works of some proportions (the Blaisy Tunnel, for instance), were executed by him, in addition to other open air works. So Favre reached the St. Gothard full of hope. The battle with the colossus did not displease him, and his courage and his confidence in the success of the work seemed to increase in measure as the circumstances surrounding the boring became more difficult. In the presence of the terrible inundation of the gallery of Airolo and the falling of aquiferous rocks, creating in the subterranean work so desperate a situation that a large number of very experienced engineers almost advised the abandonment of the works, Favre remained impassive. Amid the general apprehension, which, it may be readily comprehended, was felt in such a situation he made his confident and cheerful voice heard, reviving the ardor of all, and speaking disdainfully of "that insignificant Gothard, which would come out all right." The of the enterprise were not the only ones, however, who were uneasy over the constantly occurring difficulties in the way of the work, for the company itself and the Swiss Federal Council made known to Favre their fears that the execution of the work would be delayed. He, however, calmed their fears, and exposed his projects to them, and the seances always ended by a vote of confidence in the future of the undertaking. Favre certainly did not dissimulate the difficulties that he should have to conquer, but he execrated those who were timorous and always tried to put confidence into those who surrounded him. But, singular phenomenon, he ended by deceiving himself and, at certain times, it would not have been easy to prove to him that the St. Gothard was not the most easy undertaking in the world. Those who have lived around him know the jokes that he sometimes made at the expense of poor Gothard, which paid him back with interest, however, and did not allow itself to be pierced so easy after all. personnel Such confidence as existed in the first years, however, was not to exist for ever. The tunnel advanced, the heading deepened, but at the price of what troubles, and especially of how many expenses! Day by day one could soon count the probable deficit in the affair and the silent partners began to get a glimpse of the loss of the eight millions of securities that had had to be deposited with the Swiss Federal Council. For Favre personally the failure of the enterprise would have been ruin for his fortune was not so large as has been stated. To fears which Favre possessed more on account of the associates that he had engaged in the enterprise than for himself, came to join themselves those troubles with the Germans that he had spoken to me about on the first day. The St. Gothard Company, whose troubles are so celebrated, and whose inactivity lasted until the reconstruction of the affair, was seemingly undertaking to make Favre, who was directing the only work then in activity, bear all the insults that it had itself had to endure. And yet, amid these multiple cares, the contractor of the tunnel did not allow himself to become disheartened. Constantly at the breach he lived at his works, going from the gigantic adit of Goschenen to the inundated one of Anolo, constantly on the mountain, having no heed of the icy and perilous crossing, and passing days in the torrential rain that was flooding the tunnel. Who of us does not picture him in mind as he reached the inn at night, with his high boots still soaking wet, and his gray beard full of icicles to take his accustomed seat at the table, and, between courses, to tell some story full of mirth, some joke from the other works whence he had come, which made us laugh immoderately, and brought a smile to the faces of the German engineers. It is a singular coincidence that this confidence in his own work, despite all the struggles borne, was shared likewise by another man than Favre—by Germano Sommeiller, the creator of the Mont Cenis Tunnel. When the work of the first piercing of the Alps was yet in the period of attacks and incredulity, Sommeiller wrote his brother the following letter: "Always keep me posted my dear Leander, as to what the laughers are saying and remember the proverb that 'he will laugh well who laughs last!' The majority of the people, even engineers, are rubbing their hands in expectation of the colossal fiasco that awaits us, and it is for that that the envious keep somewhat silent. I will predict to you that as soon as success is assured everybody will mount to the house tops and say 'I told you so! It was an idea of my own!' What great geniuses are going to spring from the earth! I am in haste, so adieu, courage, energy, silence and especially cheerfulness! And especially cheerfulness!" Perhaps this cheerfulness of strong minds is the invincible weapon of those who, like Sommeiller and Favre, fight against apathy or the bad faith of their adversaries! Like Favre however Sommeiller had not the pleasure of being present at the consecration of his glory, for at the Mont Cenis banquet as at the St. Gothard the place reserved for the creator of the great work was empty. As disastrous as was the enterprise from a financial point of view what a triumph for Favre would have been the day on which he traversed from one end to the other that 15 kilometers of tunnel that he had walked over step by step since the first blow of the pick had struck the rock of the St. Gothard! But such a satisfaction was not to be reserved for him. Suddenly, on the 19th of July, 1879, less than seven years after the beginning of the work, and six months before the meeting of the adits, in the course of one of his visits to the tunnel Favre was carried off by the rupture of a blood vessel. A year before that epoch, I had left the enterprise, Favre having confided to me the general supervision over the manufacture of dynamite that he had undertaken at Varallo Pombia for the needs of his tunnel, but my friend M. Stockalper, engineer in chief of the Goschenen section, who accompanied Favre on his fatal subterranean excursion, has many a time recounted to me the sad details of his sudden death. For months before it must be said Favre had been growing old. The man of broad shoulders and with head covered with thick hair in which here and there a few silver threads showed themselves, and who was as straight as at the age of twenty years, had begun to stoop, his hair had whitened and his face had assumed an expression of sadness that it was difficult for him to conceal. As powerful as it was this character had been subjugated. The transformation had not escaped me. Often during the days that we passed together he complained of a dizziness that became more and more frequent. We all saw him rapidly growing old. On the 19th of July, 1879, he had entered the tunnel with one of his friends, a French engineer who had come to visit the work, accompanied by M. Stockalper. Up to the end of the adit he had complained of nothing, but, according to his habit, went along examining the timbers, stopping at different points to give instructions, and making now and then a sally at his friend, who was unused to the smell of dynamite. In returning he began to complain of internal pains. "My dear Stockalper," said he, "take my lamp, I will join you." At the end of ten minutes not seeing him return, M. Stockalper exclaimed, "Well! M. Favre, are you coming?" No answer. The visitor and engineer retraced their steps, and when they reached Favre he was leaning against the rocks with his head resting upon his breast. His heart had already ceased to beat. A train loaded with excavated rock was passing and on this was laid the already stiff body of him who had struggled up to his last breath to execute a work all science and labor. A glorious end, if ever there was one! Favre died in the full plenitude of his forces at less than fifty four years of age, and I can say, without fear of contradiction, that he was universally and sincerely regretted by all those who had worked at his side. Still at the present time when a few of us old colleagues of Goschenen, Airolo or Altorf meet, it is not without emotion that we recall the old days, the joyful reunions at which he cheered the whole table with his broad and genial laugh.— Maxime Helene, in La Nature. About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Various (2006). Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. 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          Association, New York. This annual gathering of booksellers from all over America comes together ostensibly to eat and drink, but really to discuss business; therefore I am required to talk shop. I am required to furnish a statement of the indebtedness under which I lie to you gentlemen for your help in enabling me to earn my living. For something over forty years I have acquired my bread by print, beginning with The Innocents Abroad, followed at intervals of a year or so by Roughing It, Tom Sawyer, Gilded Age, and so on. For thirty-six years my books were sold by subscription. You are not interested in those years, but only in the four which have since followed. The books passed into the hands of my present publishers at the beginning of 1900, and you then became the providers of my diet. I think I may say, without flattering you, that you have done exceedingly well by me. Exceedingly well is not too strong a phrase, since the official statistics show that in four years you have sold twice as many volumes of my venerable books as my contract with my publishers bound you and them to sell in five years. To your sorrow you are aware that frequently, much too frequently, when a book gets to be five or ten years old its annual sale shrinks to two or three hundred copies, and after an added ten or twenty years ceases to sell. But you sell thousands of my moss-backed old books every year—the youngest of them being books that range from fifteen to twenty-seven years old, and the oldest reaching back to thirty-five and forty. By the terms of my contract my publishers had to account to me for 50,000 volumes per year for five years, and pay me for them whether they sold them or not. It is at this point that you gentlemen come in, for it was your business to unload 250,000 volumes upon the public in five years if you possibly could. Have you succeeded? Yes, you have—and more. For in four years, with a year still to spare, you have sold the 250,000 volumes, and 240,000 besides. Your sales have increased each year. In the first year you sold 90,328; in the second year, 104,851; in the third, 133,975; in the fourth year—which was last year—you sold 160,000. The aggregate for the four years is 500,000 volumes, lacking 11,000. Of the oldest book, The Innocents Abroad,—now forty years old—you sold upward of 46,000 copies in the four years; of Roughing It—now thirty-eight years old, I think—you sold 40,334; of Tom Sawyer, 41,000. And so on. And there is one thing that is peculiarly gratifying to me: the Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc is a serious book; I wrote it for love, and never expected it to sell, but you have pleasantly disappointed me in that matter. In your hands its sale has increased each year. In 1904 you sold 1726 copies; in 1905, 2445; in 1906, 5381; and last year, 6574. About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Mark Twain (2004). Mark Twain's Speeches. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved October 2022 https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3188/pg3188-images.html This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at , located at . www.gutenberg.org https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html

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Data analytics has significantly transformed how businesses carry out decision-making processes in the development of Minimum Viable Products (MVPs). However, many startups still encounter challenges in making informed decisions while developing their MVPs. One of the main reasons might be not adapting to a data-driven approach in the , which can lead to uninformed decisions, unclear business goals, a limited understanding of user needs, inefficient resource allocation, poor user experience, low conversion rates, and much more. MVP development process Nevertheless, the best solution to overcome these challenges in MVP development is to implement a data-driven strategy. In this comprehensive guide, we'll explore what are data-driven decisions, how to develop MVPs with a data-driven methodology, and how to track their key metrics. Content Overview What are Data-Driven Decisions How to Develop MVPs with a Data-Driven Approach Key Metrics to Track in MVP Development Case Studies: Successful MVPs with Data-Driven Decisions Final Note What are Data-Driven Decisions? The data-driven approach in MVP development is evidence-based choices and actions that help businesses gain insight into their user behavior, usage patterns, needs & preferences to make tailored-made minimum viable products. With data-driven decisions, MVP companies can validate their ideas, mitigate risks, optimize user experience, prioritize features, and track real-time performance. Creating MVPs that resonate with target audience preferences leads to higher customer satisfaction and increased business success. However, data-driven decisions in MVP development are further categorized into qualitative and quantitative data. Let’s explore both data types: Qualitative Data Qualitative data for MVPs involves non-numeric insights derived from sources like user feedback, open-ended surveys, customer interviews, and usability tests. This qualitative information provides a nuanced understanding of user experiences, preferences, and pain points, helping developers make informed decisions that align with user needs and expectations. Quantitative Data Quantitative data in MVP decision-making comprises numerical metrics such as key performance indicators (KPIs), user engagement, and conversion rates. These objective measures offer statistical insights, enabling developers to analyze user behavior, track performance, and make data-driven decisions through A/B testing and app usage metrics. How to Develop MVPs with a Data-Driven Approach Developing MVPs with a data-driven approach involves leveraging user data and analytics for informed decision-making and iterative development. Here's a step-by-step guide: 1. Establish Clear Objectives and KPIs Set a clear path for your MVP by outlining the unique business goals and objectives. Additionally, ensure that these objectives are measurable by defining KPIs, such as user engagement metrics, conversion rates, or performance benchmarks that align with your goals. 2. Conduct Market Research Perform data analysis to understand user needs and preferences, and gain insight into market trends and user behavior, helping you validate whether there's a demand for your product. This information is crucial for making strategic decisions about the direction of your MVP and its potential in the market. 3. Prioritize Key Features: Data allows you to identify which features are most used or valued by your users. This insight helps prioritize and focus on the core functionalities that resonate with your target audience, optimizing resources and development efforts. 4. 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Validate the Hypothesis Gather data on user engagement metrics for both groups and analyze the results based on A/B testing. Run the test for a specific period and figure out which data supports the hypothesis. If the outcome shows a positive response toward a personalized recommendation strategy that leads to a higher customer retention rate and engagement, then stick to the data-driven decision. 7. Collect User Feedback: In the realm of data-driven decision-making in MVP development, the focus extends beyond quantitative metrics to include qualitative insights from user feedback. Integrate methods like surveys, interviews, and feedback forms to gather qualitative user feedback. Evaluate this feedback to examine pain points and identify key areas for improvement. 8. Monitor User Engagement: Monitor user engagement metrics, such as user activity, time spent on the platform, and feature usage, to gain insights into user behavior. Utilize this data to identify popular features and areas that may require enhancements, ensuring a focused and user-centric approach to MVP development. 9. Analyze Conversion Rates: Evaluate conversion rates at crucial stages in the user journey, such as sign-ups or purchases. Identify the factors that impact these conversion rates and implement iterative improvements to the MVP, ensuring a targeted and effective strategy for optimizing user conversions. 10. Iterate Based on Data Insights: Embrace a continuous iterative process for MVP development, drawing insights from both quantitative and qualitative data. Prioritize development efforts guided by data-driven insights, enhancing the product over time. This iterative feedback loop establishes a user-centric approach, allowing the product to evolve alongside user expectations. 11. Ensure Data Privacy and Security: Integrate robust data privacy and security measures to safeguard user information effectively. Ensure compliance with pertinent regulations, fostering trust among users concerning data handling practices. By prioritizing data protection, your commitment to security instills confidence, establishing a foundation of trust that is vital for user satisfaction and maintaining adherence to regulatory standards. 12. Collaborate Across Teams: Foster collaboration among development, marketing, and customer support teams to align efforts with data-driven insights. Establish a cohesive environment where data-driven decisions are not only made but also effectively communicated and comprehended across the entire organization. This collaborative approach ensures that all facets of the business are attuned to data-informed strategies, promoting a unified and informed direction in achieving organizational goals. By following these steps, you can create an iterative and user-focused MVP development process that maximizes the value of data-driven decision-making. Key Metrics to Track in MVP Development Measuring the key metrics in MVP development is crucial in identifying its success and failure ratio which helps the team to improve and iterate the product accordingly. Below are the three main key metrics to keep track of in the MVP development process. 1. User Engagement Metrics Understanding how users interact with the MVP is fundamental. User engagement metrics, such as time spent on the platform, feature usage, and session frequency, provide valuable insights into the product's usability. Analyzing these metrics guides development teams in prioritizing features that resonate most with users, optimizing the overall user experience. 2. Conversion Rates and Retention Metrics Tracking conversion rates and user retention is critical for assessing the MVP's ability to convert visitors into users and retain them over time. MVP developers can identify conversion bottlenecks, optimize onboarding processes, and implement strategies to enhance user retention, ensuring the long-term viability of the product. Evaluating these metrics is helpful in retaining users and boosting conversions: Examining each stage of the conversion funnel helps identify areas where users may drop off. Optimize these stages to improve conversion rates, whether it's signing up, making a purchase, or taking another desired action. Conversion Funnel Analysis: Monitoring churn rates and conducting cohort analysis allows for a deeper understanding of user retention. Identify patterns among user groups to implement targeted strategies for improving long-term engagement. Churn Rates and Cohort Analysis: 3. Performance Metrics Performance metrics, encompassing aspects like loading times, system responsiveness, error rates, and bug tracking are vital for ensuring the technical robustness of the MVP. A data-driven focus on performance metrics allows you to proactively address issues, optimize the product's speed and reliability, and deliver a seamless user experience. Measuring performance metrics not only enhances user satisfaction but also contributes to the overall success and scalability of your MVP in the market. Case Studies: Successful MVPs with Data-Driven Decisions Numerous industry-leading giants have laid their business foundation on MVPs to test and validate their ideas, now operating as successful companies with millions of active users worldwide. Here are a few well-recognized companies that have embraced the , making informed decisions that ultimately result in a satisfying user experience and substantial business growth. data-driven MVP strategy Netflix Netflix is a popular that employs natural language processing (NLP) to analyze user viewing habits, preferences, and content ratings. These data-grounded insights and predictions guide personalized content recommendations and inform original content creation, enhancing user engagement and retention. data-driven streaming platform Amazon Amazon makes informed, data-driven decisions using to identify customer demands, understand browsing patterns, and stay abreast of market trends. This enables personalized product recommendations based on users' habits. Moreover, Amazon employs a data-driven marketing and advertising strategy, creating highly targeted ads to effectively reach the right audience. big data Meta Meta makes data-driven decisions by analyzing vast amounts of user data to gain insights into user behavior, preferences, and interactions. The platform utilizes advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms to understand user engagement, content preferences, and trends. This data informs decisions related to content algorithms, ad targeting, feature enhancements, and overall user experience. Airbnb Airbnb is an online marketplace that connects guests with hosts looking to rent out their place.  Airbnb influences decision-making by analyzing vast amounts of data, including user preferences, property details, and booking patterns to provide personalized property recommendations, optimize search results, and dynamically adjust pricing based on factors like demand and seasonality. Final Note Data-driven decisions in MVP development play a pivotal role in optimizing business processes and elevating user experience. Hope you understand how a data-backed strategy in developing MVPs facilitates the swift identification of user preferences, potential bottlenecks, and emerging trends.  Just keep on making smart decisions leveraging real-time insights and big data analytics and rest assured that you’ll propel toward a transformative MVP development journey that seamlessly aligns with user expectations and market demands. 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Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889, by Various, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book . ORTHOCHROMATIC PHOTOGRAPHY. here ORTHOCHROMATIC PHOTOGRAPHY. By Oscar O. Litzkow. What I want to show is the manner in which the process has been tested. My employer, Mr. Bierstadt, has given me permission to show you some samples, and also his chart containing the spectrum colors: violet, indigo blue, green, yellow, orange, red, and black. This chart has been photographed in the orthochromatic and also in the ordinary way. There are many ways of producing an orthochromatic effect; one is the use of a glass tank placed behind or in front of the lens, in which a coloring matter from either a vegetable or mineral product is placed; this tank or cell is, however, only for use in the studio, as for outdoor photography we have a colored glass screen, so as not to be bothered with carrying colored solution. The tank is constructed as follows: Procure two pieces of best white plate glass, about 6 inches square; between these place a piece of rubber of the same size square, and about 3/8 of an inch thick. In the center of this rubber cut out a circle about 4 inches diameter, and from one of the corners to the center of the circle cut out a narrow strip ¼ inch wide; this serves as the mouth of the tank. The two pieces of glass and the rubber are cemented together with rubber cement; then, to hold it firmly together, two brass flanges are used as a clamp, with four screws at an equal distance apart; a thin sheet of rubber is on the glass side of the flanges to prevent direct contact with the glass, the center remaining clear for the rays of light to pass through solution and glass. One of the best orthochromatic effects made through this tank is with a three-grains-to-the-ounce solution of bichromatic of ammonia or bichromate of potassium. In this method there is no preparation used on the plate. A common rapid dry plate is exposed through this solution; the exposure, however, is about twenty times longer than it would be if you removed the tank with the yellow solution, or, in other words, if a dry-plate is exposed one minute without the yellow solution it would have to be exposed twenty minutes through a three-grain solution of bichromate of potassium or ammonia. It produces wonderful results on an oil painting or any highly colored object. Another method, and the one best adapted for landscapes, is to bathe the plate in erythrosine and then expose it through a yellow glass screen. As an illustration, suppose we have before us a beautiful landscape. In the foreground beautiful foliage, in the center a lake, in the distance hills, with a bluish haze appearing pleasing to the eye, also a nice sky with light clouds. Now make a plain negative, and see what has become of your clouds, hills, and the distance—not visible! Some photographers have been led to think that by underexposing they retain the distance, but they sacrifice the foreground; besides, it does not produce an orthochromatic effect. But it is a good idea to expose longer on the foreground than you do on the distance. This can be done by raising the cap of the lens skyward and gradually shut off, giving the foreground more exposure. Plates are prepared for orthochromatic work as follows: Take any ordinary rapid dry plate, place it in a bath containing Distilled water 200 c.c. Strong liquid ammonia 2 c.c. Rock it for two minutes, work as dark as you possibly can. Now take it out, and place it in the second bath for one and one-fourth minutes and keep it rocking. Have on hand for use a stock solution of Distilled water 1,000 parts. Erythrosine "Y" brand 1 part. Prepare second bath as follows: Erythrosine stock solution 25 c.c. Distilled water 175 c.c. Strong water ammonia 4 c.c. After removing the plate, dip it again face down to rinse off any particles of scum, etc., that may get in the bath accidentally. This bath may be used for one dozen 8 by 10, when it should be thrown away and fresh bath used. After the plates come out of the last bath, they should be stood on clean blotting paper to absorb the excess of solution. I would also advise to use clean fingers. Pyro. or hypo. on the fingers is a drawback to success. After plates have been drained, place them in a cleaned rack in an absolutely light-tight closet, with air holes so constructed as to admit air but no light; the plates will dry in from eight to twelve hours. They are best prepared in the evening, and, if the closet is good, will be dry in the morning. After the plates are dry they may be packed face to face with nothing between them, in a double-cover paper box, and put in a dark closet free from sulphureted hydrogen gas, until ready for use. I have kept plates for three months in this way, and they were in good condition. Great care should be used in developing these plates, as they are sensitive to the red; get used to developing in a dark part of the dark room; occasionally you may look at the process of development in a little stronger light. The exposure through the yellow screen with an erythrosine plate is about the same as if you had no orthochromatic plate—a plain plate instead—provided you are not using too dark a yellow on your screen. This can only be determined by experience. I will give to a common plate about four seconds, an orthochromatic plate under the same conditions five seconds. The yellow glass screen is prepared as follows: Take a piece of best plate glass—common cannot be used—clean it nicely; take another large plate glass, or anything that is level and true, level it with a small spirit-level. Now take the cleaned piece of glass and coat it with AURENTIA COLLODION. Ether 5 oz. Alcohol 5 oz. Cotton 60 grs. The aurentia to be added to suit your judgment; it takes a very small quantity to make an intense yellowish-red collodion. Pour it on the center of the glass, flow it to the edges, and before it sets place it on the level glass and allow it to set; when set put it in a rack to dry. Should it dry in ridges, the collodion may be too thick, and it must be thinned down with equal parts of alcohol and ether. A single piece of plate glass, about one-eighth inch thick, coated with aurentia collodion, is all that is required with an erythrosine plate. Or, after a piece has been successfully coated, another piece of the same plate glass, and the same size, may be cemented together with balsam, having the coated aurentia side between the two glasses; the edges may then be bound with paper. In using different colored solutions, collodion, etc., I have found that one will change the focus and the other not. With some screens you must focus with them in their positions; take away the screen, and the picture appears out of focus. I cannot fully explain why it is, and for this reason will not make the attempt; experience alone can teach it. Another thing that has been tried lately is to do away with the yellow screen by substituting a yellow coating direct on the plate. No doubt the focus on an object that requires absolute sharpness is somewhat affected by the use of a glass. We have been successful, on a small scale, to coat the plate with the following yellow solution: Place in a tray enough of a saturated solution of tropæolin in wood alcohol to cover the plate; allow it to remain ten seconds. It is necessary that the plate should be bathed previously in erythrosine and dried. Before applying the tropæolin, which, being in alcohol, dries in a few minutes, have some blotting paper on hand, as the solution gathers in a pool and leaves bad marks on the end of the plate. The plate can be developed in the usual way. Try it and see the results.— Reported in the Beacon. Read before the Photographic Association of Brooklyn. About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Various (2004). Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16972/pg16972-images.html This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at , located at . www.gutenberg.org https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html

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