Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (1789-1851)
French inventor, was born at Cormeilles. He discovered the daguerreotype process of photography, by which the portrait was fixed on a plate of copper thinly coated with silver, by the successive action of the vapors of iodine, bromine, and mercury; in this invention he was associated with M. Niépce.
He was also celebrated as a dioramic painter; was named by the French government as an officer of the Legion of Honor; and was granted a pension.
~ The Lincoln Library of Essential Information, Volume 2, Thirty-Fifth Edition, 1972, Biography, Page 1779.
You can visit the memorial page for Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre.
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