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<p>[QUOTE="Lark, post: 4620857, member: 13605"]I knew what a stanhope was but this post got me interested in where the word originated. From Wikipedia " Stanhopes or Stanho-scopes are optical devices that enable the viewing of microphotographs without using a microscope. They were invented by René Dagron in 1857. Dagron bypassed the need for an expensive microscope to view the microscopic photographs by attaching the microphotograph at the end of a modified Stanhope lens. He called the devices bijoux photo-microscopiques or microscopic photo-jewelry." But you guys probably already knew that![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lark, post: 4620857, member: 13605"]I knew what a stanhope was but this post got me interested in where the word originated. From Wikipedia " Stanhopes or Stanho-scopes are optical devices that enable the viewing of microphotographs without using a microscope. They were invented by René Dagron in 1857. Dagron bypassed the need for an expensive microscope to view the microscopic photographs by attaching the microphotograph at the end of a modified Stanhope lens. He called the devices bijoux photo-microscopiques or microscopic photo-jewelry." But you guys probably already knew that![/QUOTE]
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