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CALOTYPE

Volume 6 · 60 words · 1860 Edition

(καλός and τύπος), the name given by Mr H. Fox Talbot to his photogenic process for obtaining copies of natural objects and pictures; in which paper prepared in a particular manner is used, instead of the silvered plates em- ployed for that purpose by M. Daguerre. It is also some- times called Talbotype, in honour of the inventor. See Photography.