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The Development of Photography - Henry Hunt

By henrydhunt

  • Thomas Wedgwood

    Thomas Wedgwood
    Thomas Wedgwood began experimenting with Silver Nitrate Photography. These experiments were the preliminary foundation for what has become modern photography as we know it.

  • Louisiana Purchase

    Thomas Jefferson purchased 828,000 sq miles from Napoleon. This purchased allowed the united states to nearly double in overall land area.

  • Sir Humphry Davy

    Sir Humphry Davy
    Nicéphore Niépce, a French Inventor, created the first permanent photograph.

  • World's First Revolver

    Samuel Colt filled the patent for the world's first revolver in 1836. This was a firing mechanism that could be shot multiple times without reloading.

  • William Henry Fox Talbot

    William Henry Fox Talbot
    The mathematician, chemist, astronomer, and artist presented his flat-style photography work to the Royal Society.

  • First American Photography Related Patent

    First American Photography Related Patent
    Alexander Wolcott issued the first American photography patent.

  • Photography in Advertising

    The first advertisement using photograph was created in Philadelphia.

  • The FLying Dutchman

    Richard Wagner's premiere of The Flying Dutchman is shown in Dresden Germany.

  • First Continuius Recording

    First Continuius Recording
    Sir Francis Ronalds worked to create the first camera that could record images throughout a 24 hours period. The drive fore such an invention stemmed from Ronalds love for scientific observation.

  • Moby Dick

    Moby Dick
    Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is published

  • André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

    André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri
    Disdéri owned the largest photography studio in Paris.

  • Secession of South Carolina

    South Carolina secedes from the Union

  • First Color Photograph

    First Color Photograph
    Scientist James Clerk Maxwell developed the world's first colored photograph

  • American Civil War Photographs

    American Civil War Photographs
    Matthew Bradley and his staff of field photographers stook nearly 10,000 photographs during the Civil War. The original negatives for these photos were later purchased by the Library of Congress in 1943.

  • Dry Plate Manufacturing

    The factory which would develop the first manufacturing processes for creating dry plates was opened. This allowed for more photographers to have access to the equipment they needed.

  • Sensitometry is Born

    Sensitometry, or the science of light sensitive materials, is pioneered by Chemist Ferdinand Hurter and Engineer Vero Charles Driffield.

  • The Invention of the Telephone

    The Invention of the Telephone
    Alexander Graham Bell invented the world's first telephone. The first patent was received in 1876.

  • "Improvement of Electrical Lights"

    Thomas Edison files his first patient for the incandescent light bulb.

  • Kodak Box Camera

    Kodak Box Camera
    Kodak created the world's most compact and user friendly camera that was marketed to the public.

  • How the Other Half Lives - Jacob Riis

    How the Other Half Lives - Jacob Riis
    Jacob Riis published his photographs depicting the harsh conditions of New York City citizens.

  • Kodak 120 Film

    Kodak 120 Film
    This was the first standardized film format introduced by Kodak. The film style is still commonly used today.

  • X-Ray Discovery

    Wilhelm Rontgez receives the first Nobel Prize for Physics because of his work in the discovery of x-rays.

  • Autochromes - First Successful Color Photography

    Autochromes - First Successful Color Photography
    Auguste and Louis Lumiere used backlight, a glass plate, soot, and potato starch to create colored photographs.

  • Cruel Child Labor

    Cruel Child Labor
    Lewis Hines used the power of photograph to revel the cruel work environments children were being exposed to.