Background
Ernst was born in 1838, in Turas, Persia.
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Gallery of Ernst Mach
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna, Austria
In 1894 Ernst moved to Vienna, Austria to become a professor of history and theory of inductive science at the University of Vienna, Austria.
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Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna, Austria
In 1894 Ernst moved to Vienna, Austria to become a professor of history and theory of inductive science at the University of Vienna, Austria.
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Ernst Mach
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Ernst studied science.
Career
In 1861 Ernst became a mathematics lecturer at the Vienna technical school. In three years he received a full professorship at the University of Graz in Graz, Austria. Later he became a professor of physics at the University of Prague, Czech Republic.
In 1894 Ernst moved to Vienna, Austria to become a professor of history and theory of inductive science at the University of Vienna, Austria. He moved to Munich, Germany for the last three years of his life.
Achievements
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In 1884 Mach was the first, who used an electric spark to record a bullet in flight. In 1888 he proposed the use of time-lapse photography to study the growth of plants, embryos and even human life from cradle to grave. He invented stereo X-rays in 1896, which were produced by Eder and Valenta at the Graphische Lehrund Versuchsanstalt in Vienna.
Publications Books: Quellendarstellungen zur Geschichte der Fotografie, Wolfgang Baier, 1964; History of Photography, Helmut & Alison Gernsheim, 1955. Anthology: Photography's Great Inventors, Louis W. Sipley, 1965. Periodicals: Bild und Ton, 1961; Photographische Corresponded, 1916, 1886, 1884; Jahrbuch fiir Lone Mt. College, 2800 Tuck Blvd, Photographie und Reproduktionstechnik, Maria Eder, 1891, 1888; Photographische heilungen, 1884.
