Thomas Wedgwood | |
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| Born | 14 May 1771 |
| Died | 10 July 1805 (aged 34) Dorset, England |
| Occupation(s) | Inventor, photographer |
| Years active | 1790–1805 |
| Parent(s) | Josiah Wedgwood Sarah Wedgwood |
| Relatives | Josiah Wedgwood II (brother) Susannah Darwin (sister) Charles Darwin (nephew) |
Thomas Wedgwood (14 May 1771 – 10 July 1805) was an English photographer and inventor. He is most widely known as 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. His practical experiments yielded only shadow image photograms that were not light-fast, but his conceptual breakthrough and partial success have led some historians to call him "the first photographer".[1][2][3]
- ^ e.g. Litchfield, book title et al.
- ^ Talbot, W.H.F. (1844). The Pencil of Nature, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London, 1844. On page 11, Talbot acknowledges that the original 1802 account of Wedgwood and Davy's experiments, which he did not see until his own experiments were well underway, "...certainly establishes their claim as the first inventors of the Photographic Art, though the actual progress they made in it was small."
- ^ "Thomas Wedgwood | British physicist". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2016-01-24.