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Photography - The Beginning

The beginning of the photography was in the distant 1799, when Thomas Wedgwood build first camera and make first photography images. He used them to decorate ceramic products. Unfortunately he did not succeeded, because the photography images went pale very fast. In his earlier attempts he made impermanent photography pictures on clothes and white leather, with light and light-sensitive chemicals... The beginning of the photography was in the distant 1799, when Thomas Wedgwood build first camera and make first photography images. He used them to decorate ceramic products. Unfortunately he did not succeeded, because the photography images went pale very fast. In his earlier attempts he made impermanent photography pictures on clothes and white leather, with light and light-sensitive chemicals.
In 1802 Thomas Wedgwood and the English chemist Sir Humphrey Davy presented their invention as they called it "An account of a method of copying paintings upon glass and of making profiles by the agency of light upon nitrate of silver". Thomas Wedgwood examined his photography images by the light of a candle, because they didn't succeeded in fixing the images.
Thomas Wedgwood died in 1805, aged 34. Davy continued his research of method to fix the photography pictures, but didn't succeeded.
In 1819 Sir John Herschel discovered that hyposulphite of soda could dissolve the silver salts. After 20 year he had managed to fix the photography images by using hyposulphite of soda.