Daguerrotypy
Daguerrotypy is the first practically used photographic technique with
an image created by silver amalgam. It was named in honour of its inventor Louis
Jacques Mande Daguerre in 1839. The photographic collection of the National
Technical Museum preserves the original inventor's daguerrotypy
– picture of the Royal Palace in Paris from 1840. The second daguerrotypy,
which is displayed at the permanent exhibition is a still life from 1839. The
author presented this picture to the Austrian chancellor Metternich and it is in
the National Technical Museum on a long-term accommodation from the Office of
Historical Monuments Care in Pilsen.