MoosedHistory
Menu
Photographers

Photographers

The photographer-inventor test: no camera patent, and the Roncz cross-reference

The exact page text, read by your browser's voice.

Patent record swept for Lakeville-named photographers; cross-reference to the banked Roncz record

No Lakeville photographer held a camera patent, for the sufficient reason that no Lakeville photographer of the studio era existed to hold one — and the town's one patent-holding image-adjacent name belongs to another leg entirely. The patent sweep for a Lakeville, Indiana photographer-inventor — a solar-camera, enlarger or process patent of the kind the floor instance holds — returns no name in any carrier reached. The cross-reference the checklist asks for runs the other way: John Roncz, the banked aerodynamicist of this ground, holds patents in airfoil design, an inventor's record carried whole in the famous-people and inventors material, and his early paintings — sold through local galleries before engineering, at the banked artists file's exact strength — are a painter's line, not a photographer's. No carrier joins Roncz to a camera, a studio or a photographic patent, and none is joined here. The inventor-photographer is a true-size absence, printed with its cross-reference so the two records are never merged.

Cite this page

Using this page? Copy a credit line. Last updated November 12, 2026.

Source: The photographer-inventor test: no camera patent, and the Roncz cross-reference, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/photographers/photographer-inventor-test-no-camera-patent-and-the-roncz/