Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
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)