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Victoria Fisher of U of T holds the century old ‘smart lens’ – Photo by Dan Falk<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. We are familiar nowadays with smartphones, but what about a smart lens? Just over a century ago (1922), the lens shown here went to Australia to aid in proving a theory published in 1916. Another example of the valuable use of photography to the world.<\/p>\n

Over a century ago in 1905 (special) and 1915 (general) a young Albert Einstein came up with his “Theory of Relativity<\/a>“. Even today, it isn’t uncommon for a theory to precede proof by many years.<\/p>\n

Young Einstein’s work was based on that of many of his \u00a0predecessors, including A A Michelson<\/a> (this\u00a0 biography I read back in the summer of 1962).<\/p>\n

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The U of T magazine for October, 11, 2023 includes an article by Victoria Fisher, the assistant curator of U of T’s Scientific Instruments Collection and Dan Falk<\/a>, called “The Einstein Camera”. In this photo by Falk, Fisher, “holds up the lens that travelled to Australia and back more than a century ago. In May 2023, Fisher uncovered the lens in the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics’ historic collections, where it had lain forgotten for decades.”<\/p>\n

My thanks to good friend and fellow photo historian, George Dunbar, for finding and sharing this article with us (I still have the book on Michelson).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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