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Definition: Daguerreotype |
DaguerreotypeNoun1. A photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "daguerreotype" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1878. (references) |
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Fine Arts | Photograph taken by the method published by Daguerre in France in 1839. It consists of a positive image formed by mercury vapour on a polished coating of silver on a copper plate. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Daguerreotype (4 syl.). A photographic process. So named from M. Daguerre, who greatly improved it in 1839. (See Talbotype.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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a daguerreotype of John Mosby |
The daguerreotype is named after its inventor, French artist and chemist Louis J.M. Daguerre, who announced its perfection (after years of experimentation) in 1839 (the French Academy of Science announced the process on January 9 of that year). Daguerre's patent was acquired by the French Government. On August 19, 1839 the French Government announced the invention a gift "Free to the World."
The daguerreotype was a positive-only process alowing no reproduction of the picture. The development of the image was effected by placing the exposed plate over a slightly heated (about 75°C) cup of mercury. The vapour of mercury condensed on those places where the light had acted in an almost exact ratio to the intensity of its action. This produced a picture in an amalgam, the vapour of which attached itself to the altered silver iodide. Proof that such was the case was subsequently afforded by the fact that the mercurial image could be removed by heat. The developing box was so constructed that it was possible to examine the picture through a yellow glass window whilst the image was being brought out. The next operation was to fix the picture by dipping it in a solution of hyposulphite of soda. The image produced by this method is so delicate that it will not bear the slightest handling, and has to be protected from being accidentally touched.
Daguerreotypy spread rapidly, except in England, where Daguerre had secretly patented his process before selling it to the French government.
In the early 1840s the invention was quickly introduced (within a matter of months) to artists in the United States by Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph. An exuberant market in portraits, often the work of itinerant artists who moved from town to town, sprang up.
People often believe that the daguerreotype was the most commonly used method of photography into the late part of the 19th century. Actually this process was used for only about 10 years, before it was overtaken by other processes:
Unlike film and paper photography, a daguerreotype can last forever, when properly sealed.
Today these antique items are avidly collected. Some daguerreotypes - such as those by Southworth & Hawes of Boston, or George S. Cook of Charleston, South Carolina (shown below) - are considered masterpieces of the art of photography.
See also: photography
Some parts of this text are derived from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Daguerreotype."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Painting | Photograph, color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph, heliograph; daguerreotype, talbotype, calotype, heliotype; negative, positive; print, glossy print, matte print; enlargement, reduction, life-size print; instant photo, Polaroid photo. |
Representation | Verb: represent, delineate; depict, depicture; portray; take a likeness, catch a likeness; Noun: hit off, photograph, daguerreotype; snapshot; figure, shadow forth, shadow out; adumbrate; body forth; describe; trace, copy; mold. |
Picture, photo, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot; X-ray photo; movie film, movie; tracing, scan, TV image, video image, image file, graphics, computer graphics, televideo, closed-circuit TVerb: | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Daguerreotype |
| English words defined with "daguerreotype": Daguerre, Daguerreian, Daguerreotyped, Daguerreotyping ♦ Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre. (references) |
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 | Robley Dunglison engraved by A.H. Ritchie from a daguerreotype by M.P. Simons.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Dr. A. A. Berthold : Professor der Medicin in Göttingen. / Daguerreotype v. F.E. Ritmüller. Lith. Petri.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Surgeon Thomas C. Bunting. / Lithographed by A. Hoffy from a Daguerreotype by T.P. Collins.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Joseph Carson, M.D. : Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy / Engraved by T.B. Welch from a daguerreotype by M.P. Simons.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Nathaniel Chapman engraved by Welch & Walters from a daguerreotype by M.P. Simmons.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | M.M. Levis M.D. / Engraved by A.B. Walter from a daguerreotype by McClees and Germon.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Samuel Jackson engraved by Welch & Walter from daguerreotype by M.P. Simons.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | W. Darrach, M.D. / Engraved by A.H. Ritchie from a daguerreotype by M.P. Simons.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | William R. Grant, M.D. : Professor of Anatomy & Physiology / Engraved by A.H. Ritchie from a Daguerreotype by M.P. Simons.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Ch. D. Meigs engraved by Welch & Walter from a daguerreotype by M.P. Simons.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Daguerreotype" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.86% of the time. "Daguerreotype" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.86% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
daguerreotype | 53 |
daguerreotype process | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "daguerreotype"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | portret i fotografuar me një procedurë të hershme. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | дагеротип (tintype). (various references) | |
French | daguerréotype. (various references) | |
German | daguerrotypie (daguerreotypy). (various references) | |
Greek | παλαιό είδοσ φωτογραφίασ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | dagerrotip. (various references) | |
Italian | dagherrotipo. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aguerreotypeday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | daguerreótipo. (various references) | |
Russian | дагерротип. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dagerotipija. (various references) | |
Spanish | daguerrotipo. (various references) | |
Turkish | dagerreyotipi, eski fotoğraf tekniği ile basılmış resim, eski fotoğraf tekniği. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | phép chụp hình đage. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "daguerreotype": daguerreotyped, daguerreotypes. (additional references) | |
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"Daguerreotype" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dagguerreotype, daguerrotype, dagurreotype, dagurrreotype, dauguerreotype. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-g-o-p-r-r-t-u-y" | |
-3 letters: reoperated. | |
-4 letters: departure, outprayed, perorated, porterage, portrayed, predatory, purgatory, regrouped, reoperate, reportage. | |
-5 letters: aperture, departee, deportee, depurate, derogate, deterger, dragrope, garroted, gartered, operated, outraged, pargeted, parroted, perorate, portaged, portered, predator, prograde, prorated, protegee, protrude, ragouted, raptured, reargued, redargue, regeared, regrated, repartee, repeated, repeater, reported, repoured, rerepeat, rerouted, teardrop, upreared. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-e-g-o-p-r-r-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: daguerreotyped, daguerreotypes. | |
+2 letters: daguerreotypies. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100001 01100111 01110101 01100101 01110010 01110010 01100101 01101111 01110100 01111001 01110000 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a g u e r r e o t y p e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 0067 0075 0065 0072 0072 0065 006F 0074 0079 0070 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38677387718484718186918271 |
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