William Henry Fox Talbot Philosopher, classicist, Egyptologist, mathematician, philologist, transcriber and translator of Syrian and Chaldean cuneiform texts, physicist, and photographer. Whatever claims may be made for who invented photography we all owe an enormous dept to the work that he did between 1834 and 1850 established in principle and practice the foundation of modern photography; the basis of the process that is used today. All texts and images printed in books, magazines, newspapers and journals or on posters are transformed and translated through the negative/positive photographic process, whether or not finally printed lithographically or by photogravure. In addition, all printed circuit boards found in modern computers are miniaturised by photographic reduction and their production uses a process known as photo-polymerisation to etch all the minute tracks and contacts that form the basic motherboards at the heart of all digital electronic systems. The origin of photo-polymerisation can be seen in the early researches of Talbot. Between 1845 and 1860, he discovered the unique property of potassium dichromate to directly harden colloidal gelatine in proportion to the amount of light to which it is exposed. This Window the Oriel one in Lacock Abbey was the subject of the very first photographic Negative image he produced.. The frames to the right depict this, and the one to the left is one Of Fox-Talbot himself