And a telephoto lens can often give extra impact than a wide-angle. In 1845 Francis Ronalds, the Honorary Director of the Kew Observatory, invented the primary profitable camera to make continuous recordings of meteorological and geomagnetic parameters. The cameras have Photograpy News been provided to numerous observatories around the world and some remained in use until well into the twentieth century. Charles Brooke a little later developed related devices for the Greenwich Observatory.