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In 1802, Thomas Wedgewood and Humphry Davy presented the idea of an invention of which could enable images to be printed directly onto pottery products such as plates and bowls.
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The coffee pot was made/invented in 1806 by Benjamin Thompson.
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Louis XVIII passed away and is succeeded by his reactionary brother,
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The earliest surviving photograph was created by Joseph Micephore Niepce in 1826.
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The first image ever made was by henry Fox Talbot in 1835 with his calotype invention.
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Louis Daguerre created a photo in 1838 in Paris that is widely believed to be the first image of a human being.
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Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.
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Henry Fox Talbot announces his photographic invention, the Calotype, to the world in 1839.
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Louis Daguerre announced his invention of the Daguerrotype January of 1839, and also applied for patents in Britain.
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In 1840, Hippolyte Bayard created a portrait of himself that's an example of political-protest photography that demonstrated a picture that doesn't necessarily represent a truth.
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Henry Fox Talbot's invention of the Calotype was patented in 1841.
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Anna Atkins made the first ever book that was illustrated exclusively with photographic images, "Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions" and gave it to The Royal Society in October of 1843.
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Henry Fox Talbot published "The Pencil of Nature", a book of his photographs from 1844-1846. It is the first book that uses silver gelatin photographs.
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Lasted from 1846-48.
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The sewing machine was invented in 1846.
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The Collodion process was invented by Frederick Scott Archer in 1851.
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Lasted from about 1853-1856.
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In 1855, photographer Roger Fenton sailed to the Crimea with the financial support of a Manchester publisher who thought to make a profit from the images brought back.
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The most well known example of Tableux Vivant is Oscar Rejlander's allegorical work "Two Ways of Life" made in 1857.
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Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species" in 1859. He used photography to argue that the physical signs of emotions were inherently the same within humans and animals.
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The earliest known photograph taken with an aerial view was made by James Wallace Beck in 1860.
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Women were able to now obtain limited rights to their property after marriage.
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Married women obtained the right to acquire their own property in Britain.
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Starting in 1907, the world began to increasingly see a movement away from pictoralism towards straight objective photography. Photographers focused more on form rather than atmosphere.
