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Thomas Wedgwood

1771 - 1805

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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". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Wedgwood is the 350th most popular inventor (down from 318th in 2019), the 4,135th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,362nd in 2019) and the 58th most popular British Inventor.

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Among inventors, Thomas Wedgwood ranks 350 out of 426. Before him are Ivan Polzunov, John Wilkinson, Joseph Timchenko, Prokop Diviš, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, and Henry M. Leland. After him are Kálmán Tihanyi, Albrecht Berblinger, Kazimierz Prószyński, John Fitch, Dan Bricklin, and Per Georg Scheutz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Thomas Wedgwood ranks 47. Before him are George Bass, Hans Nielsen Hauge, Heinrich Zschokke, Charles Brockden Brown, Pierre-François Bouchard, and Jean Broc. After him are Germanos III of Old Patras, Justo Figuerola, and Dorothy Wordsworth. Among people deceased in 1805, Thomas Wedgwood ranks 27. Before him are Franz Xaver von Wulfen, John Robison, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville, Conrad Moench, Ji Yun, and Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage. After him is Mihály Csokonai.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Wedgwood ranks 4,136 out of 8,785. Before him are Liz Smith (1921), Natalia Tena (1984), Edith Sitwell (1887), Bernard Bosanquet (1848), Brian Lumley (1937), and Kenney Jones (1948). After him are Jenny Clack (1947), Joe Cole (1988), Tony Barton (1937), Gillian Rubinstein (1942), Barbara Thompson (1944), and Jon Amiel (1948).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Thomas Wedgwood ranks 58. Before him are Harry Brearley (1871), Henry Shrapnel (1761), David Dunbar Buick (1854), William Fothergill Cooke (1806), John Wilkinson (1728), and Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1835). After him are Joseph Bramah (1748), John Milne (1850), Wordsworth Donisthorpe (1847), Isaac Pitman (1813), Barnes Wallis (1887), and William Friese-Greene (1855).

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