daguerreotype

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Definition

  1. noun a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor

Etymology

From French daguerréotype. Named after French artist Louis Daguerre (1787–1851) who announced the process in 1839. Daguerre developed the process after some years of collaborations with French chemist Nicéphore Niépce.

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