{"id":11902,"date":"2018-06-25T06:11:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T10:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=11902"},"modified":"2018-06-24T18:04:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T22:04:07","slug":"11902","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/11902\/","title":{"rendered":"x-rays reveal an image hidden by damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11903\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/MTDVDNY3WNBC7N5COFXQKIZ66I.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11903\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11903\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/MTDVDNY3WNBC7N5COFXQKIZ66I-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daguerreotype image<br \/>by x-ray &#8211; Globe &amp; Mail<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. I had a call from John Linsky Friday morning as I was making breakfast. John had read an article in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\">Globe<\/a> that morning regarding the discovery of images on a daguerreotype thought to be long lost.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists in Saskatchewan used x-rays to excite the mercury atoms (daguerreotypes are developed with mercury fumes as you likely know).<\/p>\n<p>Past PHSC president <a href=\"https:\/\/centurydarkroom.com\">Dr Mike Robinson<\/a>\u00a0of Toronto is a modern day daguerreotypist. If you enter the word <em>daguerreotype<\/em> in the search bar at the upper right, on our web site, you will see our many posts on the topic.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy would help if daguerreotypes are found in the wrecks of the Franklin expedition and have been damaged by sea water. <a href=\"http:\/\/v1.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/AlertLinkRedirect?emailid=3114492&amp;mailinglogid=145472394&amp;syscode=ALERTPLATFORM&amp;redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theglobeandmail.com%2Fbusiness%2Ftechnology%2Fscience%2Farticle-x-ray-beam-illuminates-long-forgotten-faces-on-damaged-daguerreotypes%2F%3Futm_medium%3DNewsletter%26utm_source%3DMarket+Update%26utm_type%3Dtext%26utm_content%3DMarketUpdate%26utm_campaign%3D145472394\">You can read the Globe article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. I had a call from John Linsky Friday morning as I was making breakfast. John had read an article in the Globe that morning regarding the discovery of images on a daguerreotype thought to be long lost. The scientists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/11902\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[31,256,2013,2012,2011],"class_list":["post-11902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-processes","tag-daguerreotype","tag-globe","tag-saskatchewan","tag-x-ray","tag-xray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11909,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902\/revisions\/11909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}