Ignazio Porro
Deceased Person
1801 – 1875
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Who was Ignazio Porro?
Ignazio Porro 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 developing a strip camera in 1853 for mapping, which was one of the earliest such.
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