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Description: 17th May 2011- Happy 150th Birthday to colour photography! nnOne of James Clerk Maxwell's lesser world-beating firsts was this full colour image of a tartan ribbon, which he displayed during a talk at London's Royal Institution on May 17th 1861. Really Maxwell's goal was to verify the 3-colour theory of human sight, and the colour image just a means to that end......nevertheless, a VERY impressive achievement DECADES before colour film was invented! nnHow did he manage it with only monochrome pl