daguerreotype
da·guer·reo·type
noun
1.
a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor
Origin
From French daguerréotype. Named after French artist Louis Daguerre (1787-1851) who announced the process in 1839. Daguerre developed the process after some years of collaborations with French chemist Nicéphore Niépce.
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