Life through a Lens
Today, we take photography for granted and are able to capture an image at a moment’s notice on our mobile phone but back in the early Victorian era, this was definitely not the case.
In 1837, Louis Daguerre was credited with conceiving the ‘Daguerreotype’. By coating a copper plate with silver and treating it with iodine vapour to make it sensitive to light he was able to generate a photographic image that was fixed, did not fade and needed less than thirty minutes of light exposure – but it was thanks to the scientific innovations of past inventors that enabled him to achieve this.
