Daguerre

[duh-gair, da-ger]

noun

1. Louis Jacques Mandé 1789–1851, French painter and inventor of the daguerreotype.

Daguerre

/ daɡɛr /

noun

1. Louis Jacques Mandé (lwi ʒɑk mɑ̃de). 1789–1851, French inventor, who devised one of the first practical photographic processes (1838)

Example Sentences

The man behind the technique, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, claimed to have invented photography in France in 1839.

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Tuesday’s announcement will affect the Daguerre Point Dam near the Northern California city of Marysville.

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The photographic processes devised by such 1830s pioneers as Louis Daguerre and William Fox Talbot were influential but soon abandoned.

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Rights to Daguerre’s revolutionary invention, the daguerreotype process, were acquired by the French government in 1839 and offered unconditionally as a gift to humanity.

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Meanwhile, Louis Daguerre, creator of the daguerreotype photographic process, had captured the earliest cityscape portraits in 1838.

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