Quote of the day
They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.
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)







