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Fox Talbot to the Micro Chip - the remarkable story of photography and the making of the Modern World A major contributor to the evolution of photography was William Henry Fox Talbot. Photography was one of the most important inventions of the Victorian era, which not only gave rise to cheap photography, but also provided the technology for the creation of micro chips. In fact 20th Century technology would have been impossible without Fox’s photographic processes. Now the most popular applications are dying out, having been replaced by digital processes. For pictorial recording, silver-based photography is no longer the ‘fittest’.