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The Invention of Photography

In Our Time: Science

CHAPTER

Photographic Technology - The Daguerrotype

The early processes, on the negative positive processes, were much less commercially orientated. In this country, one of the reasons the daguerrotype was not taken up with such enthusiasm was that a wealthy coal merchant called richard beard bought a patent for the deguereotype from de gare's agent. And he then basically franchised, licensed the technology. He did it regionally. So there was a deger studio in inpin barthe gt oldt he controlled it. Made people pay a lot of money, a a thousand guineas, lot of money,. asen simon as i'm so every aspect of photography, as we know, was slow

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