John Adams Whipple
American inventor and photographer (1822–1891) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the settler of Dorchester in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, see John Whipple (settler).
John Adams Whipple (September 10, 1822 – April 10, 1891)[1] was an American inventor and early photographer. He was the first in the United States to manufacture the chemicals used for daguerreotypes. He pioneered astronomical and night photography. He was a prize-winner for his extraordinary early photographs of the moon and he was the first to produce images of stars other than the sun. Among those was the star Vega and the Mizar-Alcor stellar sextuple system,[citation needed] which was thought to be a double star until 2009.[2]
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John Adams Whipple | |
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Born | (1822-09-10)September 10, 1822 Grafton, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | April 10, 1891(1891-04-10) (aged 68) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Resting place | Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Photographer, inventor |
Known for | Photographic pioneer |
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Elizabeth Mann
(m. 1819; died 1891) |
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