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Johann Heinrich Schulze makes fleeting sun prints of words
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, simply as an interesting way to demonstrate that the substance inside the bottle darkens where it is exposed to light. -
Johann Heinrich Schulze
Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light. -
Panaroma
First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Barker. -
Joseph Niepce
Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image using an early device for projecting real-life imagery called a camera obscura. However, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded. -
Louis Daguerre
Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype, an image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure. -
William Henry Talbot
William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process, the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies. -
Philadelphia
The first advertisement with a photograph is published in Philadelphia. -
Law
Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright law. -
Film
Reverend Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film. -
1st
First mass-marketed camera, called the Brownie, goes on sale. -
Sony
Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder for capturing moving picture. -
Canon
Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera. -
Pixar
Pixar introduces the digital imaging processor. -
Eastman Kodak
Eastman Kodak announces Photo Compact Disc as a digital image storage medium. -
Kyocera Corporation
Kyocera Corporation introduces the VP-210 VisualPhone, the world's first mobile phone with built-in camera for recording videos and still photos.
