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
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
She was the British photographer Anna Atkins, who may not be as well known as Louis Daguerre, William Henry Fox Talbot and other men from the medium’s first decade.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2018
Polymath William Henry Fox Talbot began the history of British photography with the invention of his "calotype" process, patented in February 1841.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2017
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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