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When was the daguerreotype made public?

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Daguerre completed the invention of the daguerreotype alone and in 1839 it was made public and ceded to the Academy of Sciences only a few weeks before the rival invention of the calotype was announced by William Henry Fox Talbot . The daguerreotype was introduced into the United States by J. W. Draper and S. F. B. Morse .

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