Photography was used in 1836 by John Herschel. Photography is a combination of two ancient Greek words photo for light and graph for control, from this the context therefore means that control the light.
Louis Daguerre discovered the work of Joseph Niepce in 1826. In 1829 Louis began a partnership with him to improve upon the photography process. but then in 1833 Niepce died but he produced the first photographic image but however, Niepce's photographs quickly faded. After several years of experimentation, Louis Daguerre developed a more effective method of photography, naming it after himself - the daguerreotype. |
William Henry Fox Talbot was British scientist inventor and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype process. The salted paper was created in the mid 1820's. The salted worked by wetting a sheet of paper with a weak solution of normal table salt, blotting and drying it then brushing one side with a strong solution of silver nitrate. He called this camera a "mouse trap". |