The Invention of Photography
In Our Time: Science
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The Mania for the Daguerrotype
After meeting, optical instrument makers and chemists in paris were besieged by people who wanted to try out this new technology. By december 18 39, paris is gripped by a mania for the deguereotype. And there's a wonderful cartoon which is actually precient. It shows great throngs of people in the paris streets, fighting each other to have her photograph taken,. There are cameras pointing in all directions, as somebody in a balloon points a camera down. In his speech arago actually about what what if we'd had this in 17 98, when the napoleon, napoleon's expedition to egypt looked at the hierogy hieroglyphs? I
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