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For the first time we see two instantaneous photographs printed at the same time as the letterpress... .Photography has opened new paths. Its motto is now 'speed' in every respect, both in picture taking and reproduction. The old techniques surpassed techniques are surpassed as much by today's as the stagecoach by the railroad.

The physical and chemical properties of metal are characteristic of transition element general. Its melting point of 3,440 ± 50° I exceeded by that of only one other metal, tung« element number 74; its density of 21.04 grams cubic centimeter is surpassed only by that of mium, element number 76. It is susceptible chemical attack by oxidizing agents and displai variety of oxidation states ranging from (-1)VII), the latter being the most stable and im-srtant. Due to its high melting point and its sus-iptibility to air oxidation at elevated tempera-res, powder metallurgy techniques in a nonoxi-zing environment are employed in fabricating e metal.

This invention is epochal. It was the first of those photomechanical techniques that were soon to revolutionize the graphic arts by eliminating the hand of man in the reproduction of pictures of all kinds. It is the most important of Niepce's contributions, for it involved a principle that became basic to future techniques: the differential hardening by light of a ground that would control the etching in exact counterpart of the image.