About Thomas Rudolphus Dallmeyer
Lived 1859 – 1906 (aged 47). Thomas Rudolphus Dallmeyer was a British photographer and lens designer.
Thomas Rudolphus Dallmeyer (16 May 185925 December 1906), English optician, was the son of John Henry Dallmeyer who ran an optics business. His maternal grandfather, Andrew Ross, was himself the first English photographic optician. which was the prototype of the anachromatic lenses.
He was the author of a standard book on the subject of telephoto lenses, Telephotography (1899). He served as president of the Royal Photographic Society in 1900-1903.
He married Julia Fanny Thomas (died 26 September 1936), daughter of Charles Thomas Lt 54 Bengal Infantry, on 13 January 1886.
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British optician (1859–1906)
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Thomas Rudolphus Dallmeyer was born on 16 May 1859.
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Thomas Rudolphus Dallmeyer died on 25 December 1906.
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Thomas Rudolphus Dallmeyer was a photographer and lens designer.
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Thomas Rudolphus Dallmeyer was British.
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