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Mungo Ponton was born in 1801 in Balgreen, Scotland, United Kingdom. He was a farmer's son.
Private Mungo Ponton was a farmer"s son, born and raised in Edinburgh. He became a legal apprentice and was admitted to the Society of Writers to the Signet, a legal fraternity, on 8 December 1825. In the 1830s Ponton was listed as living at 30 Melville Street, a large new terraced townhouse in Edinburgh"s west end, presumably the family"s home.
Ponton suffered a breakdown around 1845 and moved to Bristol, England for its milder climate.
Ponton died at his home in Clifton, Bristol on 3 August 1880. On 20 June 1834, Ponton became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
In 1839, while experimenting with an early photographic process published that year by Henry Fox Talbot, Ponton discovered the light-sensitising effect of potassium dichromate. He presented his findings to the Society of Arts for Scotland on 29 May.
Ponton did not attempt to patent his photographic process and published his findings in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal.
Others experimented with his discovery, including Talbot, Edmond Becquerel, Alphonse Poitevin, and John Pouncey, some of whom patented their photographic techniques. Dichromate sensitisation provided the basis for the carbon print and gum bichromate photographic processes, as well as some photoresists used in the printing industry and other industrial applications. Ponton continued to work on photography and in 1845 the Society again awarded him a silver medal for his process for measuring the hourly variation in temperature on photographic paper.
That year he also developed a variation on the calotype process to allow shorter exposure times.
Mungo Ponton, The Online Books Page, University of Pennsylvania.
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