Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), August 16, 1845, vol. 2, no. 6, p. ???, col. ?

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M. MARTINER, of Paris, claims to have discovered the means of Daguerreotyping an entire panorama, embracing 150 degrees — although we are at a loss to know how “an entire panorama” (tautological) can be said to embrace only 150 degrees. His process consists in curving the metallic plate, and causing the lens which reflects the landscape to turn by clockwork. The lens, in turning, passes over on one side the whole space to be Daguerreotyped, and on the other side moves the refracted luminous cone to the plate, to which the objects are successively conveyed.