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William Henry Fox Talbot (1800 - 1877)
William Henry Fox Talbot ©Fox Talbot was an English member of parliament, scientist, inventor and a pioneer of photography.
William Henry Fox Talbot was born on 11 February 1800 in Melbury, Dorset, into a well-connected family.
Fox talbot and louis daguerre biography
His father died when he was less than a year old and he and his mother lived in a succession of homes until she remarried in 1804. Talbot went to Cambridge University in 1817.
In 1832, he married Constance Mundy and the same year was elected as MP for Chippenham.
In 1833, while visiting Lake Como in Italy, his lack of success at sketching the scenery prompted him to dream up a new machine with light-sensitive paper that would make the sketches for him automatically. On his return to England, he began work on this project at his home at Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire.
Thomas Wedgwood had already made photograms - silhouettes of leaves and other objects - but these faded quickly.
In 1827, Joseph Nicéphore de Niepce