Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Robert Hunt Esq., Secretary to the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, Falmouth, 1841 Feb. 19.

Record ID: 
106948
Accession number: 
MA 1167
Author: 
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851.
Date: 
1841 Feb. 19.
Credit: 
Purchased from Goldschmidt, October 1942.
Description: 
1 item (3 p.)
Summary: 

Saying he is determined not to publish the principles of his "new discovery [...] before I have succeeded in making the execution of it as easy for every body as it is to myself....By means of that new process it shall be possible to fix the image of objects in motion such as public ceremonies, market places covered with people, battles etc. The effect being instantaneous."