Photography

By maura.patterson

  • Yeast in Beer

    Yeast in Beer
    Yeast is discovered as a new way to make beer ferment.

  • Thomas Wedgwood

    Thomas Wedgwood
    Thomas Wedgwood thinks of the idea of taking a picture with a camera and creates silhouetts.

  • Steam Printing Press

    Steam Printing Press
    Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer produce the first steam printing press in London

  • First Negative Photograph

    First Negative Photograph
    Nicephore Niepce succeeds in making negative photographs of camera images on paper coated with silver chloride, but cannot adequately "fix" them to stop them from darkening all over when exposed to light for viewing.

  • Rosetta Stone

    Rosetta Stone
    The Rosetta Stone was deciphered by Jean-François Champollion

  • View from the Window

    View from the Window
    Nicéphore Niépce produces the first outdoors photograph "View from the Window" at Le Gras. The left is the original the right is colorized and enhanced.

  • Sewing Machine

    Sewing Machine
    The first successful functioning sewing machine was invented by Barthelemy Thimonnier

  • Henry Fox Talbot

    Henry Fox Talbot
    Henry Fox Talbot produces durable silver chloride camera negatives on paper and concieves the two-step negative-positive procedure used in most non-electronic photography up to the present.

  • Stereoscope

    Stereoscope
    Sir Charles Wheatstone presents the stereoscope to the Royal College in London

  • Daguerretype

    Daguerretype
    Louis Daguerre publicly introduces his daguerreotype process.

  • Sarah Anne Bright's Photograms

    Sarah Anne Bright's Photograms
    Sarah Anne Bright creates a series of photograms, six of which are known to still exist. These are the earliest surviving photographic images created by a woman.

  • The Calotype

    The Calotype
    Fox Talbot patents the 'calotype' introducing the negative-positive process.

  • The Raven and Other Poems

    The Raven and Other Poems
    Rdgar Allan Poe publishes "The Raven and Other Poems"

  • First Successful Continuous Recording

    First Successful Continuous Recording
    Francis Ronalds invents the first successful camera for continuous recording of the various in meteorological and geomagnetic parameters over time.

  • The Scarlet Letter

    The Scarlet Letter
    Nathaniel Hawthorn publishes "The Scarlet Letter"

  • Collodin Process

    Collodin Process
    Introduction of the collodin process by Frederick Scott Archer, used for making glass negatives, ambrotypes and tintypes.

  • Julia Margret Cameron

    Julia Margret Cameron
    Julia Margret Cameron is given a camera and starts taking portraits.

  • Oregon State University

    Oregon State University
    Oregon State University was founded

  • Rome becomes the Capital

    Rome becomes the Capital
    Rome becomes the capital of the entire Italian Peninsula, for the first time since the Roman Empire.

  • Gelatin Emulsion

    Gelatin Emulsion
    The gelatin emulsion is invented by Richard Maddox

  • Greenwich as prime meridian

    Greenwich as prime meridian
    Greenwich becomes accepted internationally as the prime meridian, or 0° longitude

  • Kodak n°1 Box Camera

    Kodak n°1 Box Camera
    The Kodak n°1 box camera, the first easy-to-use camera, is introduced with the slogan "You press the button, We do the rest".

  • The Cinematographe

    The Cinematographe
    Auguste and Louis Lumiere invent the cinematographe.

  • The Autochrome Plate

    The Autochrome Plate
    The Autochrome plate is introduced. It becomes the first commercially successful color photography product.

  • Kinemacolor

    Kinemacolor
    Kinemacolor, a two-color process known as the first commercial "natural color" system for movies, is introduced.

  • Flying Across the English Channel

    Flying Across the English Channel
    Charles Stewart Rolls becomes the first man to fly non-stop across the English Channel and back