His discovery was made by an accident, according to the writer Robert Leggat, who said Daguerre put an exposed plate in a chemical cupboard in 1835 only to later find it have developed a latent image.
The daguerreotype process was unveiled at the French Academy of Sciences in Paris in 1839.
It became the first commercially successful was of getting permanent images from a camera.
The Google doodle, marking Daguerre's birthday in November 18 1787, features a traditional image of an early family photograph with the heads of the figures in the image replaced with the letters that spell out Google.
Daguerre is the latest to be commemorated with a redesign of the search engine's home page. Earlier this month, British astronomer Edmund Halley's birthday was also celebrated with a special design
The search engine's home page honours the French physicist, who developed the process for transferring photographs onto silver-coated copper plates.
His discovery was made by an accident, according to the writer Robert Leggat, who said Daguerre put an exposed plate in a chemical cupboard in 1835 only to later find it have developed a latent image.
The daguerreotype process was unveiled at the French Academy of Sciences in Paris in 1839.
It became the first commercially successful was of getting permanent images from a camera.
The Google doodle, marking Daguerre's birthday in November 18 1787, features a traditional image of an early family photograph with the heads of the figures in the image replaced with the letters that spell out Google.
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