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#OTD in 1839.

John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph. The word is based on the Greek φῶς (phos), meaning "light," & γραφή (graphê), meaning "drawing, writing," together meaning "drawing with light."

Herschel's research into making photographic images (anthotype process) from flowers was limited & was ultimately abandoned since no commercial application was feasible from a process which takes days to produce an image.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photograph

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthotype

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