150 Years Ago Today

Color photography was invented:

Maxwell proposed that if three black-and-white photographs of a scene were taken through red, green and violet filters, and transparent prints of the images were projected onto a screen using three projectors equipped with similar filters, when superimposed on the screen the result would be perceived by the human eye as a complete reproduction of all the colours in the scene.

By incredible coincidence, 21 years ago this upcoming August marks the anniversary of the last photo taken of me looking like a handsome motherfucker, my incoming freshman i.d. (you're goddam right I still have it; might be available via microfiche is demand is high enough.)