print email comment close The Fox Talbot Museum URL: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-lacockabbeyvillage/w-lacockabbeyvillage-talbotmuseum.htm Description: William Henry Fox Talbot was a philosopher, classicist, Egyptologist, mathematician, philologist, and physicist but he is best known as the inventor of the positive/negative photographic process. This site includes a brief biography and a description of his work. There is also information about the museum at Lacock Abbey, in Wiltshire, England. Publisher: Fox Talbot Museum Extra Keywords notableinventors notablemathematicians Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventors People Photography Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877 LII Database Information: Record 13573 created by Martha Gifford on 08/31/1998 Last modification on 08/12/2008 Published: 08/31/1998   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/13573