A Photographic Thief-Trap
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Photography, Instruments, Crime |
Responds to a report concerning the use of photographs by the French national guards to detect insurgents. Suggests a camera for detecting thieves, in which the thief's footsteps activate a mechanism which exposes the plates and strikes a magnesium light. | |
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