Photography Timeline

  • Thomas Wedgwood takes the first known images of the sun.

  • Joseph Niepce produces first permanent image

  • Henry Fox Talbot created permanent images using silver chloride

  • Henry Talbot comes up with the name of his process he calls calotype

  • Australian astronomer G.A. Mojocchi takes the first photograph of a partial solar eclipse

  • J. Phillips photographs the moon with a 159 mm refractor

  • George Phillips Bond shows that the magnitude of stars could be derived from astronomical photos

  • Edwin Hubble using the 2.54 m Hooker telescope was able to identify Cepheid variables in the Andromeda Galaxy and its distance

  • The Hubble telescope was launched

  • The James web telescope was launched