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Jan 1, 1500
Camera Obscura
The camera obscura, the forerunner of the photographic camera, was developed during the period from 11th to the 16th century. Its purpose was to show on paper an image that could be traced by hand to give accurate drawings of natural scenes. -
Jan 1, 1568
Daniello Barbaro
Daniello Barbaro fitted the camera obscura with a lens and a changeable opening to sharpen the image. -
John Heinrich
Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that the change in color of a mixture of silver nitrate and chalk, in sunlight, was caused by light, not heat. -
Thomas Wedgwood
Thomas Wedgwood and Sir Humphry Davy recorded by contact printing, on paper coated with silver nitrate or silver chloride, silhouettes and images of paintings made upon glass. However, they could not make these prints permanent. -
Joseph N. Niepce
Joseph N. Niepce made a crude photographic camera from a jewel box and a simple lens. With it he made a negative image. -
William Henry Fox Talbot
William Henry Fox Talbot discovered a method of rendering the camera obscura image permanent. The image was fixed on silver chloride paper by means of sodium chloride. Talbot was the first to make positives from negatives and the first to make enlargements by photography. -
Lois J.M. Daguerre
Lois J.M. Daguerre invented daguerreotype process. The image was recorded on a silver plate made light sensitive with iodine. The plate was then developed in mercury vapor. -
Sir John Herschel
Sir John Herschel used sodium thiosulfate, or hypo, to make pictures permanent. -
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell reproduced a colored ribbon by the three color additive process. -
Richard L. Maddox
Richard L. Maddox prepared the first gelatino bromide emulsion. -
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge first made serial photographs of moving animals and people Later, he projected them, showing motion. -
George Eastman
George Eastman began his dry plate business in Rochester (New York). The Kodak system was started in 1888 by the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company, and a box camera was placed on the market. The camera was sold already loaded with enough film for 100 exposures. After exposure, both camera and film were returned to Rochester, where the film was removed and processed and the camera then reloaded and returned to the customer. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison made the first motion pictures on 35 millimeter film with the transparent, flexible roll film made by the Eastman Company. -
The Leica
The Leica 35 millimeter camera was marketed in Germany, initiating widespread interest in candid, or unposed, photography. -
Flash
The electronic flash was invented and patented in the US. -
Edwin H. Land
Edwin H. Land introduced the Polaroid Land camera. Camera was able to develop and print B&W photographs in 60 seconds. -
David White Company
David White Company marketed the first stereo camera. -
Polaroid Color Camera
Land introduced the Polaroid color camera. Color photographs were developed in 50 seconds.
