Quote of the day
I wish my deadly foe, no worse
Than want of friends, and empty purse.
Henry Fox Talbot
Born: February 11, 1800
Died: September 17, 1877 (aged 77)
Bio: William Henry Fox Talbot was a British scientist, inventor and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries.
Known for:
- The Pencil of Nature (1844)
- Specimens and Marvels
- English etymologies (1847)