Hi all:
Well, I would like to see streaming video for the assembly
instructions. As (if) things change, simply add a modify the link for
that portion of the instructions. And no real language issues!
Photos are nice, but hey, kinda fossil-technology.
de Doug KR2Q
http://photo.net/history/timeline
and from http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/
The first successful picture was produced in June/July 1827 by
Niépce, using material that hardened on exposure to light. This
picture required an exposure of eight hours.
On 4 January 1829 Niépce agreed to go into partnership with Louis
Daguerre . Niépce died only four years later, but Daguerre continued
to experiment. Soon he had discovered a way of developing photographic
plates, a process which greatly reduced the exposure time from eight
hours down to half an hour. He also discovered that an image could be
made permanent by immersing it in salt.
Following a report on this invention by Paul Delaroche , a leading
scholar of the day, the French government bought the rights to it in
July 1839. Details of the process were made public on 19 August 1839,
and Daguerre named it the Daguerreotype.
The announcement that the Daguerreotype "requires no knowledge of
drawing...." and that "anyone may succeed.... and perform as well as
the author of the invention" was greeted with enormous interest, and
"Daguerreomania" became a craze overnight. An interesting account of
these days is given by a writer called Gaudin , who was present the
day that the announcement was made.
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