In 1839, a young man named Robert Cornelius walked into a courtyard in Philadelphia, uncapped a small camera, and stood perfectly still. He had no idea that nearly two hundred years later, you would be looking at his face. In this episode, Cornelius speaks to us across time — marveling that his little experiment, done alone on an autumn afternoon, somehow survived long enough to find you. He was a chemist, a lamp merchant, a tinkerer. He was not trying to be famous. He was just trying to see if it would work. It worked. This Creative Journey — stories of the people who changed the world through their creativity.

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