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Louis Daguerre and the Daguerreotype

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Apocryphal Story About a Man Who Smells Beautiful

De gar is said to have shared this story verbally throughout his life, but he never wrote it down. There are some questions about how much that story may have changed in the tellings. Initially, de gar's work with iodine to sensitize plates did not really return results. But an accident is again said to have given him the next advancement. De gear used a salt solution of sodium thio sulphate to do this.

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