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Subject: [Leica] Weird question - HELP!
From: jdos2 at mindspring.com (Jeff Sumner)
Date: Fri Mar 18 09:25:03 2005
References: <00d001c52b3d$16a68b60$6601a8c0@ccapr.com> <be62051311b4f34cdb9ec2d38fa6a0e6@comcast.net> <fe8c648b5edac5ad9d0ddcb81db2de58@charter.net> <e089a8b6743f1790fe11b280f4098fc9@comcast.net>

And since the inventor of the former coined the term "photography," the 
English might be thanked... Too bad BOTH of those were patented in 
England in their day.


On Mar 18, 2005, at 12:10 PM, Eric Ladner wrote:

>
> On Mar 18, 2005, at 6:48 AM, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:
>
>> Is it still unpractical to thank the French for placing photography 
>> in the public domain?
>
> No, but "calotype" sure is easier to spell than "Daguerreotype"!
>
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