Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1896 — Photographing Under Water. [ARTICLE]

Photographing Under Water.

M. D. Boutan, of the Sorbonne, Paris, has invented and tested with success an apparatus for photographing under water. With the aid of a magnesium flash-light, arranged to work under wa(eiyhe has taken instantaneous pictures at the deptlis ordinarily attained by submarine divers. He has also made photographs at a depth of nearly twenty feet with the aid of sunlight alone, the time of, exposure being extended to thirty or forty minutes.