About Hamilton Lanphere Smith
Lived 1819 – 1903 (aged 83–84). Hamilton Lanphere Smith was an American astronomer, photographer and botanist.
Hamilton Lanphere Smith (November 5, 1819 – 1903) was an American scientist, photographer, and astronomer.
He was born in New London, Connecticut and graduated from Yale in 1839, where he constructed the largest telescope in the country at the time in 1838.
In 1848 Smith wrote The World, one of the first science textbooks written in America. Smith is best known for patenting the tintype photographic process, which popularized photography in America. He patented the great American tintype on February 19, 1856.
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American photographer (1819-1903)
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Hamilton Lanphere Smith was born on 5 November 1819 in Baltimore.
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Hamilton Lanphere Smith died in 1903 in New London.
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Hamilton Lanphere Smith was an astronomer, photographer and botanist.
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Hamilton Lanphere Smith was American.
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