1839 | Europe - France![]() C. Barth, 1840 (ca), François Arago, Lithograph, Archive Farms, | François Arago (1786-1853) gives a brief announcement of the discovery of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre of the daguerreotype at the Académie des Sciences in Paris. The work of Joseph Nicéphore Niépce is not credited in the announcement but this is rectified in the following days by Francis Bauer. |