First US Photography Patent

Posted on May 8, 2012 by GilPress

Today in 1840, to Alexander S. Wolcott received the first U.S. patent (No. 1,582) for a photographic invention for his “method of taking a likeness by means of a concave reflector and plates so prepared that luminous or other rays will act thereon.” A few months earlier, he opened the first commercial photography studio in New York.

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