American Photographic Patents 1840-1880. The Daguerreotype & Wet Plate Era

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Photography was long anticipated by the scientific elite of the western world, and when it finally became a reality with Daguerre's historic announcement in 1839, word spread as fast as the means of transportation of the day allowed. American painter and inventor Samuel F. B. Morse visited Daguerre soon after his announcement and began writing home about the exciting new process. Within a year of Morse's return to America, inventive Yankees had begun patenting inventions to refine the photographic process, beginning with Alexander Wolcott's "Concave Reflector and Plates." Following were many illustrious names in photography including Langenheim, Southworth & Hawes, Talbot, Whipple, Beckers, Anthony, Mascher, Cutting, Wing, Anson, Dallmeyer, Sarony, Eastman, and Muybridge. This book lists 810 invention and 22 design patents pertaining to a wide range of photographic processes, equipment and methodology. The list is in numerical order and includes the patent number, patent title, the name of the inventor, his or her residence, and the date the patent was issued. Each patent has been checked at the United States Great Lakes Patent and Trademark Center of the Detroit Public Library to determine its relevance to photography. An introduction ( including a bibliography) accompanies the list, and 41 patents are illustrated.