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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Nigerian King?

—devadutta @ 16:20

Most of us can identify 1, that is not the question. Identify the man in 2. (2 is from the same time frame as 1)

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Hippolyte Bayard, who invented a competing process to Daguerreotype, supposedly before Louis Daguerre but could not take it in front of the French Academy of Sciences in time because Daguerre’s friend persuaded him not to.