The Daguerreotype
Subtitle: Nineteenth-Century Technology and Modern Science
Edition: Johns Hopkins Pbk. Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: April 10, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780801864582
Subjects: History of engineering & technology; History of specific subjects; Photography & Photographs; Photography; Collection And Preservation Of Photographs; Photographic Processing; Photo Techniques; Techniques - Darkroom; Techniques - General; History / United States / General; Daguerreotype; History
First sentence: FROM THE EARLY MORNING of August 19, 1839, people had been arriving at I'Institute in Paris to hear the public disclosure of Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre's method for capturing images using a camera.