Born: February 17, 1856
Died: May 27, 1937
American, photographer, and inventor.
As a young adult , Frederic became an apprentice at a printing company, Litchfield Enquirer, while he worked there he developed an interest in photography. He got work at the Cornell University in the photography laboratory, then later got promoted and was in charge of the lab. Inventing and exploring were an interest of his and by using the gelatin relief he developed the early halftone process, in 1881. The process was a technique which broke down the illustration and the image up into a series of dots. Later he worked on the crosslink screen of which the direct photographic halftone was reproduced, he called it the photomechanical