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Categories: Audiovisual introductions in 1839, Articles with short description, All articles needing additional references, Photographic processes dating from the 19th century, Alternative photographic processes

daguerreotype Dagerotype Dagguerotype Daguerotype daguerreotypes

A photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor WordNet 3.0

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A photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Daguerreotype was the first publicly available photographic process; it was widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. Wikipedia

First commercially successful photographic process, invented by L. Daguerre in 1839: a silver-plated copper sheet is treated to make light-sensitive, exposed in a camera, developed with mercury vapor, treated to remove light-sensitivity, gilt, sealed Wikidata

An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to either iodine vapor or iodine and bromine vapors. Wiktionary

Type of photograph. Wiktionary (translation)

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photograph

development

material

photographic technique

photography

DESCRIBED BY SOURCE

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

The Nuttall Encyclopædia

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Daguerre