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-phore
- a combining form meaning 鈥渂earer of,鈥� 鈥渢hing or part bearing鈥� that specified by the initial element:
gonophore.
-phore
combining form
- indicating a person or thing that bears or produces
gonophore
semaphore
Derived Forms
- -phorous, combining_form:in_adjective
榶心vlog History and Origins
榶心vlog History and Origins
Origin of -phore1
Example Sentences
After the death of M. Nic锟絧hore Ni锟絧ce, a new agreement was entered into by his son, M. Isidore Ni锟絧ce, and M. Daguerre, and we must leave those two experimentalists pursuing their discoveries in France while we return to England to pick up the chronological links that unite the history of this wonderful discovery with the time that it was abandoned by Wedgwood and Davy, and the period of its startling and brilliant realization.
Joseph Nic锟絧hore de Ni锟絧ce commenced experiments with the hope of securing the pictures as seen in the camera-obscura.
From the time that Wedgwood and Davy relinquished their investigation, the subject appears to have lain dormant until 1814, when Joseph Nic锟絧hore Ni锟絧ce, of Chalons-sur-Sa锟絥e, commenced a series of experiments with various resins, with the object of securing or retaining in a permanent state the pictures produced in the camera-obscura, and in 1824, L. J. M. Daguerre turned his attention to the same subject.
As Daguerre was the first of the successful discoverers of photography to be summoned by death, I will here give a brief sketch of his life and pursuits prior to his association with Nic锟絧hore Ni锟絧ce and photography.
Mrs. H. Baden Pritchard鈥擨mpressions from pewter plates of heliographic drawing, by Nic锟絧hore Ni锟絧ce, 1827.
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