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William Henry Fox Talbot
William Henry Fox Talbot was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries. His work in the 1840s on photomechanical reproduction led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure. He was the holder of a controversial paten…
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science · English photography pioneer (1800–1877) · patent inventor · photographer · anthropologist · politician · inventor · chemist · mathematician · assyriologist · archaeologist · world traveler · also William Henry Fox Talbot, Henry Fox Talbot, William Fox Talbot, Vilʹi︠a︡m Genri Foks Talbot, Viliam Genri Foks Talbot, H. Fox Talbot
Born 11 February 1800 · Died 17 September 1877 · Q299565
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1966· 1 entry
Talbot was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum
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1877· 1 entry
Died 1877-09-17.
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1863· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Edinburgh (1863).
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1858· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1858).
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1854· 1 entry
Talbot applied for an extension of the 14-year patent
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1852· 1 entry
Talbot discovered that gelatine treated with potassium dichromate, a sensitiser introduced by Mungo Ponton in 1839, is made less soluble by exposure to light
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1851· 1 entry
The year of Daguerre's death, Frederick Scott Archer publicised the wet collodion process, which made it practical to use glass instead of paper as the support for making the camera negative
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1844· 1 entry
Talbot helped set up an establishment in Russell Terrace (now Baker Street), Reading, for mass-producing salted paper prints from his calotype negatives
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1842· 2 entries
Won Rumford Medal (1842).
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Talbot received the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society for his photographic discoveries
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1841· 1 entry
And in August he licensed Henry Collen, the miniature painter, as the first professional calotypist
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1840· 1 entry
Career landmark: High Sheriff of Wiltshire (1840–1841).
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1839· 1 entry
Daguerre's agent applied for English and Scottish patents only a matter of days before France, having granted Daguerre a pension for it, declared his invention "free to the world
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1838· 1 entry
Won Royal Medal (1838).
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1837· 1 entry
Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1837).
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1832· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 11th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1832–1834).
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1831· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1831).
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For his work on the integral calculus, and researched in optics, chemistry, electricity and other subjects such as etymology, the decipherment of cuneiform, and ancient history
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1826· 1 entry
Contributed a paper on "Some Experiments on Coloured Flame"; to the Quarterly Journal of Science in 1827 a paper on "Monochromatic Light"; and to the Philosophical Magazine papers on chemical subjects, including one o
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1821· 1 entry
Studied at Trinity College (1817–1821).
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1820· 2 entries
Awarded Porson Prize (1820).
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And graduated as twelfth wrangler in 1821
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1815· 1 entry
Studied at Harrow School (1810–1815).
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1800· 1 entry
Born 1800-02-11.
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