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DAY 22 | HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY |
Thomas Wedgwood
IMAGE RECORDING PIONEER
Thomas Wedgwood’s attempts to record images onto light-sensitive materials are the first such documented experiments in the pre-photographic period. Wedgwood, son of the famous potter Josiah Wedgwood (who had employed a camera obscura in the process of creating the designs for some of his china), had a background in science and was familiar with the study of light-sensitive materials, such as calcium carbonate mixed with silver nitrate and the light-sensitive qualities of silver chloride.
Beginning in 1799, Wedgwood and his colleague, chemist Humphry Davy, began to ...
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