John Adams Whipple
(1822-1891)
Early American photographer
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John Adams Whipple (September 10, 1822 – April 10, 1891) 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 (the star Vega and the Mizar-Alcor stellar sextuple system, which was thought to be a double star until 2009.
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10 September 1822 Grafton, Worcester Co., Massachusetts
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10 April 1891 (aged 68) Cambridge, Massachusetts
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| Zodiac | Virgo |
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