gutta percha

Daguerreotypes are widely regarded as the most detailed and the most beautiful of all photographs, their life-like clarity is astonishing.  Daguerreotypes were invented in 1837 by a Frenchman, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre,  and revealed to the world in 1839 when the French government gave him a lifetime pension in exchange for his agreement to not patent them.  You […]