Thomas Wedgwood was an English photographer and inventor, born on 14 May 1771 and dying on 10 July 1805, and an early experimenter in the field of photography. He is the first person known to have thought of creating permanent pictures by capturing camera images on material coated with a light-sensitive chemical. Using paper and white leather coated with silver nitrate, he captured silhouette images of objects and the shadow images cast by sunlight passing through paintings on glass, though his pictures were not light-fast and his attempts to fix camera images failed. Humphry Davy wrote up his work for the Journal of the Royal Institution in 1802, and some historians call him the first photographer. He was a son of the potter Josiah Wedgwood and an uncle of Charles Darwin.
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was an English photographer and inventor
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14 May 1771
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He is most widely known as an early experimenter in the field of photography.
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capturing camera images on material coated with a light-sensitive chemical
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Wedgwood used paper and white leather coated with silver nitrate
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