Frederick Scott Archer

Frederick Scott Archer ( * 1813 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, † May 2, 1857 in London) was a British sculptor and photo pioneer. He developed the collodion wet plate 1851 for photographic recordings.

Life and work

Frederick Scott Archer, born in 1813 as the son of a butcher in Bishop's Stortford in England, experimented for his works with Talbot's calotype process in order to produce photographic for his works can. For this purpose, he removed from 1848 the collodion, 1851, he then published a detailed description of the collodion wet plate from which he developed.

Archer decided not to apply for a patent for his invention, yet it came to disputes with Le Gray and Talbot on the copyrights of the process. After the Patent Office had rejected the claims, however, to a patent of Le Gray and Talbot, the free use of the collodion wet plate was possible.