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Wratten, Frederick Charles Luther (1840-1926)
English inventor and manufacturer. Founder in 1878 of one of the earliest
photographic supply businesses, Wratten and Wainwright, which produced and sold
collodion glass plates and gelatin dry plates. Invented in 1878 the "noodling" of
silver-bromide gelatin emulsions before washing. With the assistance of E.C.K Mees
produced the first panchromatic plates in England in 1906 and became a famous
manufacturer of photographic filters (Kodak photographic filters still bear his
name). Eastman Kodak purchased his company in 1912 as a condition of hiring Mees who
was relocated to Rochester.
... by M. Alinder in the Focal Encyclopedia of Photography
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