. . "The daguerreotype (/d\u0259\u02C8\u0261\u025Br\u0275ta\u026Ap/; French: daguerr\u00E9otype) process, or daguerreotypy, was the first publicly announced photographic process, and for nearly twenty years, it was the one most commonly used. It was invented by Louis-Jaques-Mand\u00E9 Daguerre and introduced worldwide in 1839. By 1860, new processes which were less expensive and produced more easily viewed images had almost completely replaced it."@en .