From SnowFlakes.AreAmazing.com Step back in time to learn about the man who taught us that "no two snowflakes are alike." We travel to Jericho, Vermont to recreate the life of a simple, self educated farmer that took amazing pictures of snowflakes (still found on many products today) and after decades of work, became known the world over as the "Snowflake Man." Visit http for more amazing facts about snowflakes.

Par: AreAmazing
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"Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated., When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind." Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley 1925

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The Jericho Historical Society snowflakebentley.com snowflakebentley.com The Buffalo Museum of Science (biography): www.bentley.sciencebuff.org The Buffalo Museum of Science (photography Process): www.bentley.sciencebuff.org commons.wikimedia.org vermontsnowflakes.com www.jacquelinebriggsmartin.com ------------------ en.wikipedia.org Wilson Alwyn "Snowflake" Bentley (February 7, 1865 - December 23, 1931), born at Jericho in the US state of Vermont, is the first known photographer of snowflakes. He perfected a process of catching flakes on black velvet in such a way that their images could be captured before they either melted or sublimated. He first became interested in snow crystals as a teenager on his family farm. He tried to draw what he saw through an old microscope given to him by his mother when he was fifteen. The snowflakes were too complex to record before they melted, so he attached a bellows camera to a compound microscope and, after much experimentation, photographed his first snowflake on January 15, 1885. He would capture over 5000 images of crystals in his lifetime. Each crystal was caught on a blackboard and transferred rapidly to a microscope slide. Even at subzero temperatures, snowflakes are ephemeral because they sublimate. Bentley's work can be seen as occupying the intersection of the arts and the sciences. Bentley poetically described snowflakes as "tiny miracles of beauty" and snow crystals as "ice flowers." Bentley's work gained attention in the ...

Par: PhotographyMasters
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A short documentary about Snowflake Bentley - Wilson A. Bentley (1865-1931), the first man to ever photograph a snowflake.

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