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Definition of Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
1. Noun. French inventor of the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype (1789-1851).
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Literary usage of Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flame, Electricity and the Camera: Man's Progress from the First Kindling of by George Iles (1900)
"Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre. Retouched from an injured original daguerreotype
in the US National Museum, Washington. ..."
2. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1911)
"His process was based largely upon that of Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, whose
invention for taking pictures of buildings, landscapes and other forms of ..."
3. The Romance of Modern Photography: Its Discovery & Its Achievements by Charles Robert Gibson (1908)
"1824 Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, a scene painter in Paris, endeavoured to fix
the image of the camera obscura, in order to help him in his profession. ..."
4. The Complete Photographer by Roger Child Bayley (1906)
"... Paris, by a very clever stage artist—he was much more than a scene-painter—named
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre. He showed himself remarkably skilful in ..."
5. The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries (1908)
"Yet it was only sixty-eight years ago that the world first learned of the marvelous
discovery of Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre. It was a year later, in 1840, ..."
6. The Camera Man: His Adventures in Many Fields, with Practical Suggestions by Francis Arnold Collins (1916)
"On his return to France he went into partnership with Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre,
and it was to him that he bequeathed his secret. ..."
7. Triumphs of Enterprise, Ingenuity, and Public Spirit by James Parton (1874)
"It is, however, I believe, agreed that the man to whom the chief honor of the
invention is due, was Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, born near Paris in 1789. ..."
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