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Thomas Wedgwood

1771 - 1805

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Thomas Wedgwood (14 May 1771 – 10 July 1805) was an English photographer and inventor. He is most widely known as an early experimenter in the field of photography. He is the first person known to have thought of creating permanent pictures by capturing camera images on material coated with a light-sensitive chemical. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Wedgwood has received more than 7,563 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Thomas Wedgwood is the 318th most popular inventor (down from 280th in 2019), the 3,361st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,780th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular British Inventor.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.68

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Thomas Wedgwood ranks 318 out of 426. Before him are Joseph Engelberger, Roland Moreno, Peter Carl Goldmark, Ernst Alexanderson, Walter Bruch, and Heinrich Gerber. After him are Victor Hasselblad, Kálmán Kandó, Tabitha Babbitt, Patricia Bath, Jay Miner, and Harry Ferguson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Thomas Wedgwood ranks 45. Before him are Joseph Diez Gergonne, Karl Rudolphi, Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch, George Bass, Charles Brockden Brown, and Hans Nielsen Hauge. After him are Pierre-François Bouchard, Charles Athanase Walckenaer, Heinrich Zschokke, Justo Figuerola, and Dorothy Wordsworth. Among people deceased in 1805, Thomas Wedgwood ranks 27. Before him are William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Ji Yun, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville, John Robison, and Mihály Csokonai. After him is Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Wedgwood ranks 3,361 out of 8,785. Before him are Miles Dempsey (1896), Dominic Cooper (1978), Nick Park (1958), Simon McBurney (1957), Michael Tippett (1905), and James Donald (1917). After him are Gary Lewis (1957), Taylor Caldwell (1900), Nigel Kennedy (1956), Alan Cumming (1965), Eva Le Gallienne (1899), and Trevor Bolder (1950).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Thomas Wedgwood ranks 53. Before him are Joseph Aspdin (1778), Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850), Rowland Hill (1795), George Graham (1673), Henry Shrapnel (1761), and Alexander Bain (1810). After him are John Wilkinson (1728), David Dunbar Buick (1854), Joseph Bramah (1748), Robert Whitehead (1823), John Milne (1850), and Isaac Pitman (1813).

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