Meaning & use
Daguerreotype
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An early photographic process that produced an image on a silver-coated copper plate.
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The museum displayed a daguerreotype of the president taken in the 1840s.
Making a daguerreotype required exposing a polished plate to light for several minutes.
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Named after its French inventor, Louis Daguerre, who introduced the process publicly in 1839.
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