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17K views · 1.3K reactions | In the late 1800s, Wilson Bentley captured the first successful image of a single snowflake, using a bellows camera attached to a microscope. Revisit more of our favorites here: https://on.natgeo.com/3PPuLGh | National Geographic History | Facebook

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐒𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐤𝐞 In the hills of Vermont, a boy named Wilson Bentley fell in love with snow. Each flake, he noticed, was fleeting and perfect, gone before he could study it. Determined to keep their beauty from melting away, he began experimenting with photography in his family’s farmhouse. On January 15, 1885, at twenty years old, Bentley succeeded in taking the first photograph of a snowflake. U