BIB_ID
106948
Accession number
MA 1167
Creator
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851.
Display Date
1841 Feb. 19.
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Purchased from Goldschmidt, October 1942.
Description
1 item (3 p.)
Summary
Saying he is determined not to publish the principles of his "new discovery [...] before I have succeeded in making the execution of it as easy for every body as it is to myself....By means of that new process it shall be possible to fix the image of objects in motion such as public ceremonies, market places covered with people, battles etc. The effect being instantaneous."
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