The Daguerreotype

His name was Louis Daguerre and he was a little full of himself. He was working against time, and plenty of other competitors to develope a good modification of the heliograpgh. He had help from mr. heliograph himself Joseph Niepce, and with the two together came the first "camera". The fun thing is that this new machine, although still a bunch bigger than our cameras today, used the combined process of the camera obscura and the chemical logics of the heliograph. It was wonderful and he got paid big francs for it. Here are some examples, as the Daguerreotype was a common source of photographs for years.