page_title: List of English inventions and discoveries
section_title: Photography
hierarchical_section_title: List of English inventions and discoveries / Photography
caption_attribution_description: English: Thomas Wedgwood (1771-1805), son of Josiah Wedgwood, the potter, was an early experimenter with Humphry Davy in photography.
context_page_description: English inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques invented, innovated or discovered, partially or entirely, in England by a person from England. Often, things discovered for the first time are also called inventions and in many cases, there is no clear line between the two. Nonetheless, science and technology in England continued to develop rapidly in absolute terms. Furthermore, according to a Japanese research firm, over 40% of the world’s inventions and discoveries were made in the UK, followed by France with 24% of the world’s inventions and discoveries made in France and followed by the US with 20%.
  The following is a list of inventions, innovations or discoveries known or generally recognised to be English.
context_section_description: Before 1800: Method of copying images chemically to permanent media devised by Thomas Wedgwood (1771–1805).
  1838: The Stereoscope, a device for displaying three-dimensional images, invented by Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875).
  1840: Calotype or Talbotype invented by William Fox Talbot (1800–1877).
  1850s: The Collodion process,  an early photographic process, invented by Frederick Scott Archer (1813–1857).
  1850s: The Ambrotype invented by Frederick Scott Archer (1813–1857) and Peter Wickens Fry (1795–1860).
  1861: The Collodion-albumen process, an early dry plate process, invented by Joseph Sidebotham (father of Joseph Watson Sidebotham).
  1871: The dry plate process, the first economically successful and durable photographic medium, invented by Richard Leach Maddox (1816–1902).
  1878: The Horse in Motion or Sallie Gardner at a Gallop, a precursor to the development of motion pictures, created by Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904).
  1879: The Zoopraxiscope, which may be considered the first movie projector, created by Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904).
  1880s: Method of intensifying plates with mercuric iodide devised by B. J. Edwards (1838–1914); Edwards pioneered also the construction and design of instantaneous shutters.
  1887: Celluloid motion pictures created by William Friese-Greene (1855–1921).
  1906: Kinemacolor, the first successful colour motion picture process, invented by George Albert Smith (1864–1959).
caption: Thomas Wedgwood, copied images chemically to permanent media by 1800
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