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Encyclopedia > Jacques Daguerre
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Louis Daguerre

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787 - 1851) was the Basque artist and chemist who is recognized for his invention of the Daguerreotype process of photography.


He announced its perfection after years of experimentation in 1839, with the French Academy of Sciences announcing the process on January 9 of that year. Daguerre's patent was acquired by the French Government, and on August 19, 1839 the French Government announced the invention was a gift "Free to the World."


Named after Daguerre

External link

  • The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel (http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/19c/daguerre.asp) by Louis Daguerre

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Louis Daguerre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (825 words)
Daguerre announced the latest perfection of the Daguerreotype, after years of experimentation, in 1839, with the French Academy of Sciences announcing the process on January 9 of that year.
Daguerre's patent was acquired by the French Government, and, on August 19, 1839, the French Government announced the invention was a gift "Free to the World." However, Daguerre himself deposed the patent for England on August 12, and this greatly slowed the development of photography in Great Britain.
Daguerre discovered that exposing the silver first to iodine vapour, before exposure to light, and then to mercury fumes after the photograph was taken, could form a latent image; bathing the plate in a salt bath then fixes the image.
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