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Frenchman Louis Jaques Mandé Daguerre (1789-1851) created this device. It was the first capable of recording permanent images. It was too heavy.
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English chemist John F. Goddard (1795-1866) created lenses with a wider aperture. The following year, the English writer and scientist William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) created the "calotype", perfecting the process of fixing images.
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The first color photograph was created by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879).
