Definition of Calotype

1. n. A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot.

Definition of Calotype

1. Noun. A talbotype ¹

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Definition of Calotype

1. a kind of photograph [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calotype

calorist
calorists
caloritropic
calorize
calorized
calorizes
calorizing
caloron
calorons
calory
calos
calosoma
calotte
calotte model
calottes
calotype (current term)
calotypes
calotypist
calotypists
caloyer
caloyers
calp
calpa
calpac
calpack
calpacks
calpacs
calpactin
calpain
calpains

Literary usage of Calotype

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1854)
"Mr. Long on an easy calotype Process.—In compliance with your request to be furnished with the particulars of my manipulation in the calotype process, ..."

2. A Manual of Photography by Robert Hunt (1854)
"CHAPTER V. SECTION I.—THE calotype AS NOW PRACTISED, AND ITS MODIFICATIONS. The first important published improvement on the calotype was due to Mr. Cundell ..."

3. Photography by Robert Hunt, Francis Peabody (1853)
"IMPROVEMENTS IN calotype. 1. Removing the yellowish tint which is occasioned ... The calotype paper is rendered more sensitive by placing a warm iron behind ..."

4. A Treatise on Photography by William de Wiveleslie Abney (1878)
"calotype PROCESS. HAD the historical order of photographic processes been followed, the calotype process would have been described immediately after the ..."

5. The Chemistry of Photography by W[illiam] Jerome Harrison (1892)
"Chemistry of calotype Development.—It must, we think, be granted, ... Talbot named his new method the calotype, and he patented it early in 1841. ..."

6. A Manual of Photographic Chemistry by T. Frederick Hardwich (1857)
"The English papers sized with Gelatine are commonly used for the calotype process: they retain the film more perfectly at the surface, and the Gelatine in ..."

7. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Andrew Miller (1873)
"... or calotype Process—In 1841, Fox Talbot took out a patent for the very beautiful process to which his name has since been attached. ..."

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