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John Adams Whipple

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American photographer (1822-1891)

United StatesArtistsLived 1822 to 1891 · aged 68
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John Adams Whipple 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.

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Portrait of Daniel Webster by J. A. Whipple, c. 1847Portrait of Daniel Webster by J. A. Whipple, c. 1847View of the Moon, by Whipple, February 26, 1852View of the Moon, by Whipple, February 26, 1852Advertisement, Boston Directory, 1848[3]Advertisement, Boston Directory, 1848[3]

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John Adams Whipple 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, which was thought to be a double star until 2009.

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United States
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deceased
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Lived 1822 to 1891 · aged 68
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