- 5th-4th Centuries B.C.
Chinese and Greek philosophers describe the basic principles of optics and the camera. - 1664-1666
Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors. - 1727
Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light. - 1794
First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Barker. - 1814
Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura - however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded. - 1837
Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure. - 1840
First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera. - 1841
William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies. - 1843
First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia. - 1851
Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process - images required only two or three seconds of light exposure. - 1859
Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton. - 1861
Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer. - 1865
Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright. - 1871
Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately. - 1880
Eastman Dry Plate Company founded. - 1884
George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film. - 1888
Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera. - 1898
Reverend Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film. - 1900
First mass-marketed camera—the Brownie. - 1913/1914
First 35mm still camera developed. - 1927
General Electric invents the modern flash bulb. - 1932
First light meter with photoelectric cell introduced. - 1935
Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film. - 1941
Eastman Kodak introduces Kodacolor negative film. - 1942
Chester Carlson receives patent for electric photography (xerography). - 1948
Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera. - 1954
Eastman Kodak introduces high speed Tri-X film. - 1960
EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy. - 1963
Polaroid introduces instant color film. - 1968
Photograph of the Earth from the moon. - 1973
Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the SX-70 camera. - 1977
George Eastman and Edwin Land inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. - 1978
Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera. - 1980
Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder. - 1984
Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera. - 1985
Pixar introduces digital imaging processor. - 1990
Eastman Kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.
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