Michael Foster <mf...@yahoo.com> wrote: As with any significant and potentially profitable new technology, there is > a storm of treachery, theft, false claims and injustice surrounding it. The > Daguerreotype is a prime example. . . . >
Yup. There is usually a storm of treachery, theft and so on. > Arago did this because he wanted his friend, Daguerre, to get all the > credit, the glory, and the money. It worked. I'll bet this is first any of > you have heard of poor Mr. Bayard. Arago's scheme to award Daguerre a > pension for making the Daguerreotype process free to the world was a nasty > cold-hearted way to eliminate any profits Bayard may have made from patents. > Ah, so things were not as they seemed. Not surprising. The bad guys often make themselves out to look good. Galileo was a typical example. He is described as a saint in most accounts, but in others I have read he was a political animal. He was in it for power and money, and he overreached. - Jed
