Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre

Nov 18, 1789. French tax collector, theater scene-painter, physicist and inventor, born at Cormeilles-en-Parisis, France. He is remembered for his invention of the daguerreotype photographic process—one of the earliest to permit a photographic image to be chemically fixed to provide a permanent picture. The process was presented to the French Academy of Science Jan 7, 1839. Daguerre died near Paris, France, July 10, 1851.

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