daguerreotype
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Earliest surviving daguerreotype of the Moon, taken
by John Adams Whipple in 1851
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The first practical photographic process, invented in the late 1830s by
the French theatrical designer Louis Jacques Mandé (1789–1851)
and widely used in portraiture until the mid-1850s. A brass plate coated
with silver was sensitized by exposure to
iodine vapor and exposed to light in a camera
for several minutes. A weak positive image produced by mercury
vapor was fixed with a solution of salt. Hypo soon replaced salt as the
fixing agent and after 1840 gold (II)
chloride was used to intensify the image. Related category
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