Louis Daguerre was a French artist and one of the early inventors of photography. His daguerreotype—silver-plated sheets of copper exposed to light, mercury fumes, and salt water—forever altered the ...

When Louis Daguerre presented his brand-new photographic technique in 1839, Donné leapt at the chance to modify it to capture his microscopic images to spice up his lectures to ever-growing audiences.

On January 7, 1839, an installation artist and chemist named Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre announced to the French Academy of Sciences in Paris that he had perfected a photographic imaging ...

Michael Mosley describes the scientific achievements of Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot. In 1826 Nicephore Niepce took the first photograph. In 1839 Louis Daguerre agreed to work with ...