William Henry Fox TalbotEnglish, 1800–1877Le Baumgarten près de Thun
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London, United Kingdom
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- RPS.60-2017
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In the life of William Henry Fox Talbot
The whole life1831
Elected to the Royal Society
Talbot was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his work on the integral calculus.
1831 · Award
Fellow of the Royal Society
19 December 1832
Married: Constance Fox Talbot
10 December 1832 – 29 December 1834
Post: member of the 11th Parliament of the United Kingdom
early 1834
Photographic experiments begin
In early 1834 Talbot began the experiments on which he later based his claim to priority of invention. For his “photogenic drawing” he bathed writing paper in a weak solution of table salt and brushed it with a strong solution of silver nitrate; unlike Thomas Wedgwood and Nicéphore Niépce, he found ways to fix the image chemically so that it would not darken in daylight.
1835
The first negative on salted paper
Talbot made his first negative on paper soaked in silver nitrate and a salt solution, as he later recounted in “The Pencil of Nature”. Among his early pictures is the window of his own library, taken from inside with a camera whose optical lens measured only 8 centimetres.
![[Group of Trees from the American Walnut], William Henry Fox Talbot, June 1, 1840](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/e2239044-50e4-44d2-be46-db53cdc317f1/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg)
