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Phenakistoscope.
Joseph Plateau and sons introduce the Phenakistoscope. -
First Photograph
Joseph Draper made the first photograph. -
Calotype
Henry Fox Talbot invented the calotype. -
Moving Pictures & Photographs
William Lincoln patented moving drawings & photographs -
Praxinoscope
Emile Reynaud introduces the Praxinoscope. -
Motion Picture Camera
Eadweard Muybridge stimulated Edison’s resolve to invent a motion picture camera. -
Transparent roll film
The first commercial transparent roll film -
Kinetoscope
Thomas Edison Patented the Kinetoscope. -
Cinematographe
Lumiere and his brother invented the Cinematographe -
Vitascope
Edison showed his improved Vitascope which was the successfully projector in the U.S. -
Biography Projector
The American Mutoscope Company marketing their own film in their new biography projector