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Ignazio Porro
19th-century, Italian, optics inventor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ignazio Porro (25 November 1801 – 8 October 1875) was an Italian inventor of optical instruments.
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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]