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    A photograph of a person important to medical history has just been found. Who is this person?

    Question #112404. Asked by star_gazer. (Jan 25 10 8:52 PM)


    star_gazer

    		Hint: This person famously survived a serious injury.

    Jan 26 10, 12:03 AM
    queproblema

    		A daguerreotype showed up on the Flickr photo-sharing site that is probably of Phineas Gage, a young man who in 1828 survived being impaled in the head with an iron rod. He did lose an eye.

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122810679

    Jan 26 10, 1:26 AM
    star_gazer

    		Correct, Mrs. Potato Head!

    By the way:

    A daguerreotype (original French: daguerréotype) is one of the earliest photographic processes, developed by Jacques Daguerre, in which the image is formed by amalgam i.e. a combination of mercury and silver. Mercury vapor from a pool of heated mercury is used to develop the plate that consists of a copper plate with a thin coating of silver rolled in contact that has previously been sensitised in iodine vapor (later sensitivity was increased by using the other halides - chlorine and bromine to form silver chloride and silver bromide crystals reducing the exposure time to about one minute).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype


    Jan 26 10, 6:55 AM
    star_gazer

    		The above link.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype

    Jan 26 10, 8:19 AM

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