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it's wednesday february 8th, 2020.

I'm Jackson Bird today.

How the invention of photography changed the world in unintended ways.

Plus, an American man whose prostate cancer caused him to speak with an Irish accent.

And stick around to the end for a very important announcement about the podcast. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

We as humans have used visual art to relay events for millennia. Portraits were used to mark the

legacy of leaders and the wealthy, but we didn't have photography, a realistic visual documentation

of actual life until the second quarter of the 19th century. And in an intriguing piece for the Saturday Evening

Post last summer, historian Jeff Nilsen argues that photography completely rocked the world in

ways it never imagined. He writes, quote, they weren't trying to change the world, the handful of men

who invented photography.

They only wanted to capture images from light reflected on a solid surface.

But within a few years, their experimenting turned into a social force that was embraced by the public.

Other technology influences, the telephone, the automobile, the internet, took decades before they

were in use everywhere, but photography enjoyed nearly instant acceptance. Louis DeGere

introduced his Deggerotype process of photography in 1839. Within a decade, almost every

city in America had a Deggerotype studio, and traveling photographers in their dark room wagons were photographing settlers and Native Americans on the frontier.

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