In the 1890s, a young scientist used a hidden spy camera to take secret street photographs. Carl Stormer (1874-1957) was a Norwegian auroral geophysicist, mathematician and researcher who used a (at that time) state-of-the-art spy camera to take secret photographs of people in the 1890s. CP Stirn's hidden vest camera The camera Stirn's pocket-concealed vest was introduced in October 1886 and continued around 1892. It consisted of a thin nickel-plated or rusted six-inch diameter device carrying 1 plate for 6 clear snapshots measuring 1 3/4 of an inch in diameter . The package comes with six plates and a transport box to take 36 photos.
The camera was designed to be worn under a coat or coat, invisible to the eye, with only the lens exposed. The black walnut carrying case could also be used for tripod mounting to take time exposures. The camera comes in two sizes. Size no. 1, which weighed 1 pound, was the original 6-inch diameter camera that sold for $ 10 in 1889. Size no. 2, with a weight of 1 3/4 lb., was a larger version with a 7-inch diameter camera that took pictures of 2 1/2 inches in diameter that can be used for magic lantern images and sold for $ 15 in 1889.
The ads claim that 13,000 were sold in two years, 15,000 in three years and 18,000 in 4 years. All sold by the only agents, Stirn and Lyon from New York, and Rudolph Stirn in Berlin, Germany. He obtained this Spy Camera with Hidden Vest CP Stirn in 1893. There are more than one hundred known glass plates with photos made by his camera. Here are some examples:
Here are some random girls in Oslo. Stormer took these images in Oslo, Norway between 1893-1897. This is Kristian Birkeland, Carl's future teacher and co-worker. Henrik Ibsen, important Norwegian dramatist of the 19th century. More images
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