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| 1839 | Europe - France François Arago, 1839, 10 August (event) 1864 (published), Fig. 12 Arago annonce la découverte de Daguerre, Engraving, Google Books, | Details of the photographic process for creating Daguerreotypes is announced in France by François Arago, a widely respected member of the Académie des Sciences, at a meeting in Paris revealing the work of Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre and his inventions. In exchange for a state pension to Daguerre and the son of Niépce the process is given freely to the world. The process is taken up with enthusiasm and the period of Daguerreotypomania begins. |