Invention of Photography. The earliest -experiments In tho direction di-rection of photography were mado by Wodgowood and Day, but tho first rhotograph was actually produced In a camera mado byjDaguorro and a partner part-ner about 1839. In 1840 the first photograph-portrait was mado by Professor Profes-sor John W. Draper, an Amorlcan. Progress was mado In tho work tor Fox Talbot, 1841, nnd Soott Archor, 1851, with tho glass plate. Tho gelatlno-bromldo dry plato was Invented Invent-ed In 1871 by Maddox, and greatly Ira-proved Ira-proved by Bennett In 1878. As in many other Inventions, It is practically lm-posslblo lm-posslblo to lay one's finger on ono man and one date for tho spocllh "Invention" "Inven-tion" of photography; It hns boon so largely a process of oiperlment and Improvement