Photography

PHOTOGRAPHY dates back to experiments conducted in the early 1770s in England, but commercially viable photographic processes appeared simultaneously in 1839 in England and France.

Photographic Technology

L.J.M. Daguerre's invention, the daguerreotype, was purchased by the French government and presented to the world (except England, where it was patented). It was a unique image on a silver-plated copper plate. A competing process, the calotype, was developed by W.H. Fox Talbot in...

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