Fox Talbot
Britishnoun
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The team turned to the Talbot effect, a classical optics phenomenon first described in 1836 by Henry Fox Talbot.
From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026
One innovator, William Henry Fox Talbot, wrote in 1839 that he thought he had discovered something that might have "many useful and important applications".
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2023
The photographic processes devised by such 1830s pioneers as Louis Daguerre and William Fox Talbot were influential but soon abandoned.
From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2022
In 1839, William Henry Fox Talbot announced that he had discovered a new means of “photogenic drawing,” which could trace the details of plants, fabrics or the like on light-sensitized paper.
From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2018
Calotype, a process of photography invented by Fox Talbot in 1840, by means of the action of light on nitrate of silver.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
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