Autochrome
a material once used for color photography, consisting of a photographic emulsion applied over a multicolored screen of minute starch grains dyed red, green, and blue-violet.
historical examples
“and so that is the way these autochrome plates we have here were made,” concluded the scientist.
the boy’s book of new inventions harry e. maule
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