In addition to designing a daguerreotype camera for NYU's pioneering photographer, George W. Prosch also designed for Morse this Mercury fuming box for developing daguerreotypes - one of the earliest photographic devices used in America - dating to 1839-1840. Morse worked closely with fellow NYU Professor John W. Draper in the earliest American Daguerreotype experiments. Their combined efforts proved instrumental in promoting photography in America, furthering experimentation, and producing early examples of the daguerreotypes.
