RefNo | AP/25/13 |
Previous numbers | AP.25.13 |
Level | Item |
Title | Unpublished paper, 'An account of some recent improvements in photography' by Henry Fox Talbot |
Date | 1841 |
Description | Talbot writes on a method of obtaining calotype [talbotype] pictures, sharing details of preparation of the paper, the use of the paper and the fixing process.
Marked on front as 'To be printed in the Proceedings P M R [Peter Mark Roget] S H C [Samuel Hunter Christie].'
Subject: Photography / Photomechanical processes
Read 10 June 1841.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 4 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An account of some recent improvements in photography'. |
Extent | 13p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0169 |
Printed in Proceedings, Volume 4, pages 312-316 |
RelatedRecord | MC/3/178 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA5837 | Talbot; William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877) | 1800 - 1877 |