Frederick Scott Archer
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1813 — 1857
Frederick Archer was an Englishman who apprenticed as a bullion dealer and silversmith. He moved...
Richard Beard
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1801 — 1885
Richard Beard was an entrepreneur who profitably established himself in the coal trade in...
Charles Harper Bennett
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1840 — 1927
Charles Bennett was an English photographic pioneer. He improved the gelatine silver process...
Robert Jefferson Bingham
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1824 — 1870
Robert Bingham was an English pioneer photographer, mainly active in France, making portraits...
Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard
France
Date of Birth: 1802 — 1872
Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard was a cloth merchant from Lille, France who learned the calotype...
Antoine Claudet
France
Date of Birth: 1797 — 1867
Antoine Claudet was a French businessman who moved to London to open a glass warehouse. The...
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
France
Date of Birth: 1787 — 1851
Louis Daguerre, was a French painter and physicist who invented the first practical process of...
George Eastman
United States
Date of Birth: 1854 — 1932
George Eastman was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company. His invention...
Thomas Edison
United States
Date of Birth: 1847 — 1937
"I am experimenting upon an instrument which does for the eye what the phonograph does for the...
Sir John Frederick William Herschel
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1792 — 1871
Sir John Herschel was a scientist and astronomer, like his father, Sir William Herschel, who...
John Johnson
United States
Date of Birth: 1813 — 1871
John Johnson was born at Saco, Maine, U.S.A. in 1813. He was brought up in New Hampshire and,...
Edward Herbert Land
United States
Date of Birth: 1909 — 1991
November 26, 1848, marks a major day in the history of photography as American Edward Land...
Louis Aim Auguston Le Prince
France
Date of Birth: 1841 — 1890
Born in Metz, France, Louis Aim studied chemistry and physics at university and then worked as a...
Richard Leach Maddox
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1816 — 1902
Richard Maddox was an English photographer and physician who invented lightweight gelatin...
Peter Mawdsley
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1824 — 1909
Peter Mawdsley invented the first photographic paper, the silver gelatin print, in 1873. It was...
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
France
Date of Birth: 1765 — 1833
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, is credited as the inventor of photography. He was a French inventor,...
Wilhelm Rontgen
Germany
Date of Birth: 1845 — 1923
Wihelm Rontgen was a German physicist who was the first person to systematically produce and...
Johann Heinrich Schulze
Germany
Date of Birth: 1687 — 1744
Johann Schulze was a German physician and anatomy professor who made a significant discovery in...
Thomas Sutton
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1819 — 1875
Thomas Sutton, who was born in Kensington, London, studied architecture before earring a...
Henry Fox Talbot
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1800 — 1877
Henry Talbot was an English polymath - a person whose knowledge spans a substantial number of...