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The Invention of Photography
In Our Time
The Gerotype - A Brief History
The early processes on the negative positive processes were much less commercially orientated, for instance. We have to remember that at this period, just getting the image was the challenge. That doesn't really become the major concern until round about the 1850s when the chemistry and the optics are secure. America was also experimenting, but they took up with the Gerotype with much more enthusiasm than in this country. One of the reasons that the Gerotype was not taken up with such enthusiasm was that a wealthy coal merchant called Richard Beard bought a patent for the Gerotype from the Gares agent. He then basically franchised, licensed the technology. A thousand guineas, a lot of money.
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