Académie des Sciences

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Publishing	Mary Somerville	François Arago presented MS 's findings on the transmission of sunlight through various substances to the Académie des Sciences in Paris. Arago published them in the society's Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie...

The Daguerrotype system of photography was unveiled at the Académie des Sciences in Paris.

Hannavy, John. Masters of Victorian Photography. David and Charles, 1976.

Davis, Phil. Photography. 3rd ed., W. C. Brown, 1979.

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre 's daguerrotypes (photographic images on silvered copper plates) were shown at a joint meeting of the Académie des Sciences and Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Panati, Charles. Panati’s Browser’s Book of Beginnings. Houghton Mifflin, 1984.

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Derry, Thomas Kingston, and Trevor I. Williams. A Short History of Technology From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900. Clarendon, 1960.

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French scientist Count Hilare de Chardonnet presented to the Académie des Sciences a commercial process from which artificial silk, or rayon, could be made.

Wheeler, Edward. The Manufacture of Artificial Silk, With Special Reference to the Viscose Process. D. Van Nostrand, 1931.

AF Encyclopedia of Textiles. 2nd ed., Prentice-Hall, 1972.

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