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Practical Photographic Process

France · Science / Technology. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1839

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre19 August 1839

Paris · Science / Technology

Introduces a practical method producing detailed images on silvered plates.

Names involved

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre

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