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Where does the word “talbotype” come from and What does talbotype mean?

April 1, 2020 by Karen Hill

One of the words describing a process or product that was named after the inventor (like daguerreotype and pasteurize), the talbotype is named after W. H. F. Talbot, an English inventor, who, in 1841, patented his discovery of making photographic images directly upon sensitized paper.

Talbot himself called his process calotype (from the Greek kalos, “beautiful,” plus typos, “type”), but his friends renamed it after the discoverer.

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Karen Hill is a freelance writer, editor, and columnist. Born in New York, her work has appeared in the Examiner, Yahoo News, Buzzfeed, among others.

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