19.8.1839: Daguerre's invention free to the World

[sanchi heuser]

Presentation of Jacqe Daguerre's new photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Daguerre


Cheers
sanchi

[Don Wilkes]

That page does not exist. The following page for Daguerre does exist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerre

\donw

[sanchi heuser]

That page does not exist. The following page for Daguerre does exist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerre

\donw

Thanks.

[Bill_1856]

The most important contribution Daguerre made to photography was to get Fox-Talbot off his fat arse and patented his negative/positive process.

[claudiocambon]

Actually I believe it was free to the world, except to the English, to whom it was licensed. Fox Talbot instead did not give away his inventions until the RPS I believe pinned him down on the ground and took it away from him, and then gave it to everyone. Daguerre and Niepce's son got a modest pension, Fox Talbot may have gotten less than that. It may have been for the greater good, but I can also see why Fox Talbot held out.

[goamules]

The most important contribution Daguerre made to photography was to get Fox-Talbot off his fat arse and patented his negative/positive process.

I would not concur, nor would the thousands of daguerreotypists who opened studios and practiced that process.

[Mystery Jig]

The French government bought it from Daguerre and gave it to the world, except for England. Yay big government!