hercule florenceinventions

A character with multiple interests and skills, Hercule Florence gained notoriety as a traveler-artist and an inventor. During the course of his life, the French-Monegasque developed the Hydrostatic Noria, Zoophony, the Inimitable Paper, Polygraphy, Pulvography, the Palmian Order, the Studies of Skies, the Type-syllables and, the most notable of his creations, Photography. Hercule’s discovery of the photographic process took place in 1833 in the village of São Carlos (now Campinas, São Paulo State) when he was looking for alternative methods for graphic printing.

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