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"Let
us now praise famous men..."
Ecclesiasticus
44:1-15
Thomas Wedgwood
(1771-1805)
Thomas Wedgwood born in May 1771 in Etruria, Staffordshire, son
of Josiah Wedgwood, the potter. Wedgwood was an early experimenter
with Humphry Davy in photography and is credited with a major
contribution to technology for being the first man to think of a
method to copy visible images chemically to permanent mediums.
In 1802, Wedgwood devised a method of chemically staining an
object’s silhouette to paper by coating the paper with silver
nitrate and exposing the paper, with the object on top, to natural
light, then preserving it in a dark room. This event was,
essentially, the birth of photography as we know it today.
Medallion, set in brick
wall to right of Etruria Road entrance to Etruria Park
THOMAS
WEDGWOOD 1771-1805
PIONEER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
on small bronze plaque underneath
medallion.....
THIS
PLAQUE ERECTED
BY THE SOCIETY OF
STAFFORDSHIRE PHOTOGRAPHERS
TO COMMEMORATE THE WORK OF
THOMAS WEDGWOOD
OF ETRURIA HALL
PIONEER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
UNVEILED 11TH JUNE 1953
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE
ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
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