Thomas Wedgwood (photographer)

Thomas Wedgwood ( born May 14, 1771 in Etruria, Staffordshire, † July 10, 1805 in Eastbury, Dorset ) was a British pioneer of photography.

Life

Thomas Wedgwood was born the son of the potter Josiah Wedgwood; 1786-1788 he studied chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, however, the study broke illness prematurely. In 1796 he stayed in Germany, 1800 in the West Indies. He died at the age of 34 years in Eastbury.

Work

Thomas Wedgwood also looked after his studies with chemistry and physics; including studies to find the relationship between heat and light that it was first published in 1792 under the title of experiments and observations on the origin of light in various materials by heat and friction.

1799 Wedgwood reach contact copies of leaves on silver chloride coated glass, which were reversed and he could not fix. About his research, he reported in 1802 in the Journal of the Royal Institution under the title report on a method to copy images and silhouettes make glass by the action of light on silver nitrate. Invented by T [ homas ] Wedgwood, with observations of H [ umphry ] Davy.