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The Daguerreotype Patent,Patent Agreement • October 31st, 2022
It has often been held that Daguerre obtained a patent in England because he hoped either the British Government or the Royal Society would subsequently purchase it. Why Daguerre should single out England in this way is difficult to guess (or perhaps he really did intend to do the same in other countries), but certainly the way in which Daguerre had his discovery announced in Paris, through ‘establishment’ members of the Academy of Sciences, makes it plausible that he thought the same approach would work in England. However, such an idea by Daguerre would have been mistaken because no relationship existed between the Royal Society and the British Government, a situation unlike the highly structured, centralized and integrated patronage of science and technology in France. No definite evidence of any such intention of Daguerre or his representatives to ask the British Government to by the patent has been available.
