Henry Fox Talbot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henry Fox Talbot

British inventor and photographer

Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1800

Place of Birth: Dorset, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 17-Sep-1877

Profession: photographer, politician, mathematician, inventor, chemist, patent inventor, archaeologist, anthropologist, assyriologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

William Henry Fox Talbot FRS FRSE FRAS (; 11 February 1800 – 17 September 1877) 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 patent which affected the early development of commercial photography in Britain.
He was also a noted photographer who contributed to the development of photography as an artistic medium.
He published The Pencil of Nature (1844–46), which was illustrated with original salted paper prints from his calotype negatives, and made some important early photographs of Oxford, Paris, Reading, and York.A polymath, Talbot was elected to the Royal Society in 1831 for his work on the integral calculus, and researched in optics, chemistry, electricity and other subjects such as etymology and ancient history.