Snelling, Henry Hunt, 1816-1897 · [New York : W.B. Smith] · leaf 14
d upon theuse of the substances reduced to vapor, in-stead of the liquids which Niepce employ-ed, they confirmed beyond a doubt the ef-fects of the iodine and mercury. In allprobability it was Daguerre who alone dis-covered that series of remarkable opera-tions, which has since with justice… … necessity of having it in the form of resistino- plates, in order that it mav be able toundergo the operations indispensable to theproduction of the images, have very natu-rally caused the employment of coppercoated with silver. It now becomes inte-resting to our readers, and useful, doubtless,to…
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