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Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura - however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded.
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Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.
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Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately
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Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.
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General Electric invents the modern flash bulb.
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EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy.
