Isaac Newton discovers white light is composed of different colors
Johann Heinrich Schulze makes fleeting sun prints of words by using stencils, sunlight, and a bottled mixture of chalk and silver nitrate in nitric acid.
Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light.
First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Barker
Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image using an early device for projecting real-life imagery called a camera obscura.
Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype, an image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure
The Daguerreotype camera was announced by the French Academy of Sciences
First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.
William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process, the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies.
The first advertisement with a photograph is published in Philadelphia.
Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process so that images required only two or three seconds of light exposure.
First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.
Panoramic camera, called the Sutton, is patented.
Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer.
Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright law.
Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process, which means negatives no longer had to be developed immediately.
Eastman Dry Plate Company is founded.
George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.
Reverend Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
First mass marketed camera, "the brownie" was presented by Easton
First 35mm still camera is developed.
Folding camera made for 120 roll film
Edwin Land invented the polaroid camera which could take a picture and print in one minute.
