William Henry Fox-Talbot was born on February 11 1800. In school, Talbot was a brilliant student who had a huge interest in botany. In 1824 he met a man by the name of John Herschel whom he met through his extensive family connections. The two men established a friendship and scientific collaboration that later influenced Talbot’s turn towards research into light and optical phenomena.
In 1833, during a family vacation, he found that the camera lucida an
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