Episode 2 of 3
British Patent Filing
- When
- circa 14 August 1839
- Where
- British patent system
Five days before the 19 August 1839 announcement, Miles Berry filed British patent No. 8194 of 1839 on Daguerre's behalf.
Five days previous to the 19 August 1839 announcement, Miles Berry, a patent agent acting on Daguerre's behalf, filed for patent No. 8194 of 1839: "A New or Improved Method of Obtaining the Spontaneous Reproduction of all the Images Received in the Focus of the Camera Obscura". The filing occurred within the British patent system; no supplied passage states the exact calendar date or a filing location.
Sources
- Daguerreotype Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-01
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