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He invented the calotype which is basically a piece of paper conered in silver iodide, and when exposed to the light the silver reacts and darkens, its a negative picture. this allows people to produce pictures in bulk and copy them and such. so basically he helped further develop Photography , other processes and such.

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William Henry Fox Talbot (1800 - 1877) was a British pioneer of photography. He lived at Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire (England) & there is a Fox Talbot Museum there which is open to the general public.

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