Louis Daguerre, French Inventor

Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre (November 18, 1787 - July 10, 1851) was a French artist, physicist and inventor of the daguerreotype process of photography. Daguerre was a painter of opera scenery and invented the illuminated diorama. After this he started work with Niepce on chemicals sensitive to light. Niepce died in 1833, but Daguerre continued their work, and unveiled his first camera, the Daguerreotype, in 1839. The Daguerreotype produced a unique image which could only be duplicated by using a camera to photograph the original. Daguerre's name is one of the 72 inscribed on the Eiffel tower

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