Calotype
[kælәtaip]
Definition
(n.) A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot.
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Definition
n. a kind of photography.—n. Cal′otypist one who makes calotypes.
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Examples
- The original Calotype may, by that means, serve to produce a great number of pictures. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In 1841, British patent No. 8,842 was obtained by Mr. Talbot, for what he called the Calotype, and which was afterward known as the Talbotype. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Calotype process, by which the images of the camera can be fixed upon paper, was invented by Mr. Talbot, in 1840. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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