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Excerpt from A History and Handbook of Photography
Franklin's words with respect to the balloon, 'ir is the infant just beginning to grow, ' could not have been applied to the daguerreotype, which has grown and prospered With such rapidity as to have had, so to speak, no childhood or growth at all. The daguerreo type is one of the latest of the prodigies of modern science it was discovered in 18 38.
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