Ignazio Porro (25 November 1801 – 8 October 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 Archived 2013-12-02 at the Wayback Machine", Maarten Vanvolsem
Works
- Tachéometrie, ou L'art de lever des plans et de faire les nivellements avec beaucoup de précision et une économie de temps considerable (in French). Paris: Dalmont. 1858.
- Manuale pratico di geodesia moderna (in Italian). Milano: Tipografia e litografia degli ingegneri. 1869.
External links
- Biography of Ignazio Porro at the FSU Molecular Expressions website
- Information about Porro at the Carl Zeiss website
