Daguerre

Examples

• Daguerreotypy, while the father of them all, is now hardly practised as Daguerre practised it, and has become a small subordinate sub-division of the great class. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In 1848 M. Niépce de St. Victor, a nephew of Daguerre’s former partner, applied to the glass a film of albumen to receive the sensitive silver coating. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Daguerre, without knowing that he, or indeed any other person, was pursuing, or had commenced or thought of, the art which we now call Photography. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It was Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, born at Corneilles, France, in 1789, and who died in 1851, who was the first to reduce to practice the invention called after his name. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Daguerre was, to deposit a film of iodine on a highly polished silver plate, by exposing the plate to the vapour of iodine in a dark box. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Daguerre patented the process in other countries, and France alone reaped the benefit of a free use of the invention. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Daguerre directed his attention to Photography. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The photographic camera, introduced by Daguerre in 1839, adds to the camera obscura some means for adjusting the distance between the lens and the screen on which the image falls. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• At about this time, Daguerre announced discoveries that gave photography at least a momentary impetus, but the Daguerre process did not long survive, as it was slow, costly and troublesome. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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