noun
Word Origin mid 19th century: from French daguerréotype, named after L.-J.-M. Daguerre (see Daguerre, Louis).
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Photographic process invented by L. Daguerre
Daguerreotype was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. "Daguerreotype" also refers to an image created through this process. Wikipedia