Ignazio Porro

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Total internal reflection in Porro prism

Ignazio Porro (November 25, 1801 - October 8, 1875) was an Italian inventor of optical instruments.

Porro's name is most closely associated with the prism system which he invented around 1850 and which is used in the construction of Porro prism binoculars.

He also developed a strip camera in 1853 for mapping, which was one of the earliest such.^[1]

References

↑ "How strip-photography complicated the interpretation of the still photographic image", Maarten Vanvolsem

External links

Biography of Ignazio Porro at the FSU Molecular Expressions website
Information about Porro at the Carl Zeiss website

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Name	Porro, Ignazio
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Date of birth	November 25, 1801
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Date of death	October 8, 1875
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