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.
