The Photographic Flash - A concise illustrated history is a review of progress spanning more than a century in the development of chemical and electrical means of creating a flash of bright light for photography. Much of its material has never before been readily available to the reader of photographic history. The book has been painstakenly researched using the oldest and most credible sources available and proves to be educational as well as entertaining. As the authors will show you, several things you may have taken for fact about the origins of flash photography are not as you have believed!