This reverse of fortune was soon, however, more than compensated for by the distinction he achieved as the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.
Daguerre's Historique et description des procedes du daguerreotype et du diorama (Paris, 1839) passed through several editions, and was translated into English.
On her breast the girl wore a locket in which was enshrined a miniature of her mother, while down her neck inside at the back hung a daguerreotype of her father.
With that she hauled from her bosom the daguerreotype of her father and pressed it to her lips.
A Popular Treatise on the Art of Photography, including Daguerreotype and all the New Methods of Producing Pictures by the Chemical Agency of Light," by Robert Hunt, published by R.
Fizeau in applying a solution of chloride of gold, and, by means of heat, depositing a fine film of metallic gold on the surface of the Daguerreotype image, thereby increasing the brilliancy and permanency of that form of photographic picture.
Although the greatest number of mechanical appliances were employed in the Daguerreotype branch of photography, art was not altogether ignored in its practice.
It was in that year that an Irishman named McGhee came into the neighbourhood to practise the Daguerreotype process.
John Frederick Goddard, of London, inventor of the polariscope and lecturer on chemistry, employed chlorine added to iodine, and afterwards bromine, as accelerators in the Daguerreotype process.
In his bedroom the elderly man was standing before his bureau, where to one side hung the daguerreotype of a young woman.
And here Uncle Ambrose's eyes travelled wistfully toward the faded daguerreotypeon his side wall.
It was in 1840 that portraits were first taken by the Daguerreotypeprocess in this country.
They then entered into an agreement to pursue their investigations jointly, but it was not until ten years afterwards that the invention of the Daguerreotype by M.
On the action of the rays of the solar spectrum on the Daguerreotype plate; by Sir J.
The phenomena of the Daguerreotypeinvolve many strange conditions.
Resins, the Daguerreotype plate, the unprepared metal tablet, and numerous photographic preparations, prove this in a remarkable manner.
Similar influences are described as observed on a Daguerreotype plate, in a paper entitled Experiments and Observations on Light which has permeated coloured media, and on the Chemical Action of the Solar Spectrum; by Robert Hunt.
Among the many curious instances of natural magic, none are more remarkable than an experiment not long since proposed, by which Daguerreotype pictures may be taken in absolute darkness to the human eye.
Failure upon failure was the result; and although every care was used, and every precaution adopted, it was not until the rainy season set in that he could secure a good Daguerreotype of any of the buildings of that southern city.
How great would be the joy of all, could we now obtain a daguerreotypeportrait of a Greek poet, or of a Roman philosopher, of a Sophocles, or of a Seneca!
It has been stated, that chemical change on the Daguerreotype plates and on photographic papers is more readily produced by the polarized than by the ordinary sunbeam.
Leeson has stated that Daguerreotype pictures can be taken more readily under the influence of polarized light, than by ordinary radiation.
They had been gone two months when Joe received a small package one day, which, when he tore it open eagerly, he found to contain a daguerreotype of Nina.
The daguerreotype was in a little hinged case, which he carried in the pocket of his tunic over his heart for the remainder of the war.
He took out his mother's Bible, her photograph and the daguerreotype of his father.
She drew a little cedar box from under the covers, and opening it, showed him her Bible, the daguerreotype of his father and a later photograph of herself.
The story of the "daguerreotype saloon" at Dresser's Lonesome soon spread abroad, but no one was able to furnish a clue to its history.
The roof of the old farmhouse was now so leaky that they could find no shelter there from the rain; but Catherine suggested that the deserted "daguerreotype saloon" would be a cosy place to camp in.
Burnt coffee, pulverized, has also the property of destroying the vapors of the above chemicals, as also almost any other agent employed about the Daguerreotype room.
It can easily be used in the Daguerreotype room by placing a little of the raw bean, finely pulverized, on an old plate, and roasting it over the spirit-lamp.
An old Daguerreotype plate attached to the opposite pole of the battery (copper side towards the face of the plate to be electrotyped), will answer the same purpose as the silver-plate.
Blue paper and blue color have been somewhat extensively used by our Daguerreotype operators in their operating rooms and skylights, in order to facilitate the operation in the camera.
The time of exposure necessary to produce an image upon the Daguerreotype plate, can only be determined by experiment, and requires a liberality of judgment to be exercised on the part of the operator.
One thing should always be borne in mind in electrotyping Daguerreotype plates--that in order to secure a perfectly coated surface, the plate should be perfectly cleaned.
Upon a Daguerreotype plate, from which an impression has been effaced by rubbing or otherwise, the picture may be made to reappear by merely coating it over with iodine.
Muriatic acid, from the fact of the presence of the chlorine, is used in the Daguerreotype process for dissolving gold, and in combination with various accelerators.
Daguerreotype likeness of General and Mrs. Mary Washington, with a description of the Daguerreotype process; by John S.
In fact, in the latter part of this work, a process is described for etching and taking printed impressions from Daguerreotype plates.
The photogenic surface, whether it be the Daguerreotype plate, the Talbotype paper, or any other preparation sensitive to light, is placed near the bottom of the inclined plane, F.
Daguerre's process, and no sooner was it published than he procured a copy of the work containing it, and at once commenced taking Daguerreotype pictures.
The entire Daguerreotype process is comprised in seven distinct operations; viz: 1.
It is very portable and when packed in its box, with all the necessary apparatus and materials for practising the Daguerreotype art, occupies but very little space.
Enlarged copies of calotype or Daguerreotype portraits may be obtained by throwing magnified images of them, by means of lenses, upon calotype paper.
The exterior and most sensitive film constitutes the surface of Daguerreotype plates.
Among others, he has proved that on the most sensitive Daguerreotype plate an exposure of .
The Roman Astronomers state that they have procured Daguerreotype impressions of the Nebula of the sword of Orion.
A slight effervescence will now be percieved from the battery, and the silver will be deposited upon the Daguerreotype plate, while at the same time a portion of the silver plate is dissolved.
Daguerreotype successfully to portrait taking--for when first introduced among us it took from five to ten minutes to produce a tolerable good view, while now but the fraction of a minute is required to obtain an accurate likeness.
In using the Daguerreotype the glass in front of it must be removed.
In the Daguerreotype process, a silver plate, after being thoroughly cleaned and polished, is exposed to the vapour of iodine, and is thus rendered so sensitive that it may be at once exposed in the camera.
On placing the Daguerreotype in another position, easily found by experiment, it is now reflected in the ordinary manner, showing an enlarged and perfect portrait on the disc.
To make a vignette it is necessary, first, to make a large drawing on paper with great care, and a daguerreotype is then taken of the drawing the exact size of the engraving desired.
The daguerreotype is then given to the engraver, who uses a steel point to mark on it all the outlines of the picture.
One reason why the Daguerreotype portraits are in general so unsatisfactory may perhaps be traced to a natural law, though I have not heard it suggested.
Now in the Daguerreotype there is no such medium, and the face comes before us without passing through the human mind and brain to our apprehension.
One soldier, rigid in death, was found lying upon the back, holding in his fixed hand, and regarding with stony eyes, the daguerreotype of a woman and child.
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