From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Wheatstone
Date:
[1839?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.11.12
Summary:
Too ill to attend a demonstration by CW of one of CW's instruments [?].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Too ill to attend a demonstration by CW of one of CW's instruments [?].
Invites JH to Kew Green to see Francis Bauer's plates etched by J. N. Niepce's photographic process. Perhaps L. J. M. Daguerre assumes more credit than is due. Heard Niepce visited London in 1826, but his paper was rejected by R.S.L. at W. H. Wollaston's urging.