William Henry Fox Talbot was a British inventor and one of the world's pioneers in photography. born in 1800, he grew up going to school and attending college. He began researching optics and chemicals, a precurser to what would become photography. He experimented heavily in photography, and published his photos. Within the same night of publishing, he also told the press how he had done it, so that others could take this one step further. He received a patent for the calotype process, and would sell them, but he fell under scrutiny because of how poorly the country's economy was doing.
Talbot spent his life trying to improve what he had started, spending thousands of pounds(then a fortune) on what he was passionate about.
his work was significant because in this era, not many people had done what he had done in photography. He created new ways to capture a moment, and his focus on landscapes and property showed the way people lived in the 1800s.
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