Definition of Daguerre

1. Noun. French inventor of the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype (1789-1851).

Exact synonyms: Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
Generic synonyms: Artificer, Discoverer, Inventor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Daguerre

Daffy Duck
Dafla
Dafni
Dafnion
Dag Hammarskjold
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold
Dagan
Dagda
Dagestan
Dagestani
Dagestanis
Daghestan
Dagmar
Dagnini
Dagon
Daguerre (current term)
Dahlesque
Dahlia
Dahlia pinnata
Dahlian
Dahlik
Dahomean
Dahomeans
Dahomey
Dahomeyan
Dahomeyans
Dai
Dail
Dail Eireann
Daimler

Literary usage of Daguerre

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

1. A Manual of Photography by Robert Hunt (1854)
"IT has been already stated that Niepce and Daguerre having by accident ... On the 5th Dec., 1829, Niepce communicated to Daguerre the particulars of the ..."

2. The Science and Practice of Photography: An Elementary Textbook on the by John Ransom Roebuck (1918)
"Daguerre.—Later Nie*pce and Daguerre worked together in partnership but it was not till after the former's death that Daguerre succeeded in making permanent ..."

3. Photography by Robert Hunt, Francis Peabody (1853)
"IT has been already stated that Niepce and Daguerre having by accident discovered ... 1829, Niepce communicated to Daguerre the particulars of the process ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"We have already noticed in the joint process of Daguerre and Niepce that polished silver ... Such shrewd observers as Niepce and Daguerre, who had formed a ..."

5. Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Edward Lind Morse (1914)
"Daguerre. — Letter to Mrs. Cass on lotteries. — Railway and military telegraphs. — Skepticism of a Marshal of France. THUS hopefully the inventor kept ..."

6. Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Edward Lind Morse (1914)
"Daguerre. — Letter to Mrs. Cass on lotteries. — Railway and military telegraphs. — Skepticism of a Marshal of France. THUS hopefully the inventor kept ..."

7. The Camera and the Pencil by Marcus Aurelius Root (1864)
"... 1819 — Niepce, Daguerre, and Talbot first fixed images in Europe- Anecdote of Daguerre's wife and Dr. Dumas — Variations of the calotype by different ..."

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