If Shakespeare was an inspired man, so was Newton, so was Columbus, so was Lord Bacon, so was Faust when he discovered printing, Watt when he improved the steam engine, and daguerre when he found out photographic pictures; for, in all great discoveries and inventions, and in small ones too, the original idea is an inspiration, though it has to be worked out mechanically by hard thinking.
"Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors"
James Freeman Clarke
The development of the discovery announced by daguerre in 1839, and first applied to portraits by one Draper,-this is the great historian.
"Walking-Stick Papers"
Robert Cortes Holliday
She would have been a better subject for a motion-picture camera than the invention of daguerre.
"The Comings of Cousin Ann"
Emma Speed Sampson