* 1836: Louis Daguerre invents first practical photographic method-in effect the first camera.

Daguerre discovered that exposing the silver first to iodine vapor, before exposure to light, and then to mercury fumes after the photograph was taken, could form a latent image ; bathing the plate in a salt bath then fixes the image.

On a subsequent visit to Paris in 1839, Morse met Louis Daguerre and became interested in the latter's daguerreotype — the first practical means of photography.

An 1837 daguerreotype by Louis Daguerre, the first to complete the full process.

Such cameras were later adapted by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, Louis Daguerre and William Fox Talbot for creating the first photographs.

After Daguerre and Bouton ’ s first exhibition in London, one reviewer noted a stillness like that “ of the grave .” To remedy this tomblike atmosphere Daguerre painted both sides of the canvas, known as “ the double effect .” By lighting both painted sides of the canvas, light was transmitted and reflected producing a type of transparency producing the effect of time passing.

Daguerre | Daguerre, claimed to be the first to complete the full process.

The first known attempt at astronomical photography was by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, inventor of the daguerreotype process which bears his name, who attempted in 1839 to photograph the moon.

In 1829, Daguerre partnered with Nicéphore Niépce, an inventor who had produced the world's first heliograph in 1822 and the first permanent camera photograph four years later.

In 1826, prior to his association with Daguerre, Niépce used a coating of bitumen to make the first permanent camera photograph.

The first diorama theatre was built in Paris, adjacent to Daguerre ’ s studio.

The first exhibit opened July 11th, 1822 showing two tableaux, one by Daguerre and one by Bouton.

* January 2-The first photograph of the Moon is taken by Louis Daguerre.

" The diorama was invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre and Charles Marie Bouton, first exhibited in London September 29, 1823.

Daguerre would later co-invent the daguerreotype, the first widely used method of photography.

The first theatre performance ever lit by gas, for example, was Aladin ou La lampe merveilleuse at the Opéra in 1823 ; and the theatre had on its staff the innovative designers Duponchel, Cicéri and Daguerre.

That year, Louis Daguerre invented the first practical process of photography.

In the 19th century, Thomas Johann Seebeck invents the thermocouple, Joseph Aspin invents Portland cement, Hans Christian Ørsted produces metallic aluminium, Charles Goodyear invents vulcanized rubber, Louis Daguerre and William Fox Talbot invent silver-based photographic processes, James Clerk Maxwell demonstrates color photography, and Charles Fritts makes the first solar cells using selenium waffles.

On January 7, 1839 Daguerre announced that he had invented a process using silver on a copper plate called the daguerreotype, and displayed the first plate.

* January 2 – First photo of the Moon taken by photographer Louis Daguerre

First photograph including a person, by Daguerre, 1838 or 1839

" Boulevard du Temple ", taken by Daguerre in 1838 in Paris, includes the earliest known photograph of a person.

" Boulevard du Temple ", taken by Louis Daguerre in late 1838 or early 1839, was the first-ever photograph of people.

Working in conjunction with Louis Daguerre, they experimented with silver compounds based on a Johann Heinrich Schultz discovery in 1816 that a silver and chalk mixture darkens when exposed to light.

Talbot said he engaged his photographic experiments beginning in early 1834, well before 1839, when Louis Daguerre exhibited his pictures taken by the sun.

The work on the Daguerre process was taking place at the same time as that of William Fox Talbot in England on the calotype process.

Niépce died in 1833, but Daguerre continued the work, eventually culminating with the development of the daguerreotype in 1837.

* August 19 – The French government gives Louis Daguerre a pension and gives the daguerreotype " for the whole world ".

* Louis Daguerre develops the daguerreotype.

* 1839 – Louis Daguerre patents the daguerreotype.

* 1839 Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre ( inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process ) attempts in to photograph the moon.

In fact, the bitumen process used in private experiments by Nicéphore Niépce during the 1820s involved the chemical development of a latent image, as did the widely used daguerreotype process introduced to the public by Niépce's partner and successor Louis Daguerre in 1839.

It is also significant that, although the daguerreotype process was supposed to be free to the world, Daguerre secured a British patent on his own process.

Daguerre: the history of the diorama and the daguerreotype.

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre ( 18 November 1787 – 10 July 1851 ) was a French artist and physicist, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography.

* Daguerre and the daguerreotype An array of source texts from the Daguerreian Society web site

Bayard was persuaded to postpone announcing his process to the French Academy of Sciences by François Arago, a friend of Louis Daguerre, who invented the rival daguerreotype process.

* November 18 – Louis Daguerre, French artist and chemist, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography ( died 1851 )

Daguerre died on 10 July 1851 of a heart attack in Bry-sur-Marne, from Paris.

These included ‘ Trinity Chapel in Canterbury Cathedral ’, ‘ Chartres Cathedral ’, ‘ City of Rouen ’, and ‘ Environs of Paris ’ by Bouton ; ‘ Valley of Sarnen ’, ‘ Harbour of Brest ’, ‘ Holyroodhouse Chapel ’, and ‘ Roslin Chapel ’ by Daguerre.

Nicéphore Niepce, Daguerre, Bayard, Talbot, Niepce de Saint-Victor, Poitevin, Paris 1898

About two years before M. Daguerre made his famous daguerrotype of Boulevard du Temple, where a human being is recognizable, the inventor photographed other places in Paris to experiment the new technique in plein air.

Daguerre opened a second Diorama in Regent's Park in London in 1823, a year after the debut of his Paris original.

In partnership, Niépce ( in Chalon-sur-Saône ) and Louis Daguerre ( in Paris ) refined the existing silver process.