How they captured the Rainbow.

They both liked sports but they didn't like soccer. Soccer was the official game of the New York River dale country school. The Headmaster had said if you don't play soccer you will have to take long walks. So every day they took long walks together they were young both named Leopold and both sons of famous musicians. Leopold Mannes was the son of David Mannes the celebrated violinist. Leopold Godowsky was the son of the world famous Pianist. the son of the violinist played the piano and the son of the Pianist played the violin. Granted that they were both going to be musicians. Their passions rested with pictures as both had a craze for the camera since they were ten. but they seemed distressed as there was no colour in photographs. One day however they both discussed and decided how they could come about getting colour and they decided to write down how they proposed to do it and share it the next day. They however found the ideas were identical so they decided to pool their efforts to get a color photograph. They snitched the key to the physics laboratory so they could use the apparatus after hours. it was there that the two produced the first color photograph. their collaboration lasted twenty five years with some forty patents and won them fame and fortune as inventors of Kodachrome.But all was not a smooth sail as it usually is with any success. they struggled to get to perfection getting all the colors on one plate proved a humongous task. Now they had to find money to support their invention. They befriended a banker and invited him for dinner, while he waited in the living room they took turns to entertain him while trying to produce a color picture in the kitchen of the house first the violin was played then the piano and so on till a good quality picture was produced to impress the banker. They went about messing what ever area they could get to take their interest forward now being assisted by a financier too. some people were disgusted and said you boys better stick to music. which they did besides giving lessons in music they were both giving recitals and performances in America Europe Mannes was given the Pulitzer prize from Rome. the search for rainbow went right on they both were awarded a job with the researchers of Eastman in Rochester. The company leaned over backwards to accommodate their every fancy. there was good deal of kidding when these two well known musicians moved into the building full of scientists. the two measured the exact length of time that the plate was to be immersed in a developer, by singing a strain from Schubert's Marche Militaire or Tchaikovsky's Symphonie Pathetique. they maintained it was an ideal method to measure the short interval of time in total darkness. Art and science was never more strikingly united. Their work a phenomenal evidence of energy versatility and creativity with music and friendship involved. what a striking coincidence with same name same school same dislike for soccer and passions for photography. Is this not a handy task of the almighty?