the history of photography

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    Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors.

    Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors.

  • Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors

    Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors

  • Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light.

  • First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Barker

  • Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura - however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded.

  • Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.

  • First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.

  • William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies.

  • First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia

  • Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process - images required only two or three seconds of light exposure.

  • Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer

  • Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright

  • Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright

  • Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately.

  • Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately.

  • Eastman Dry Plate Company founded

  • George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.

  • Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.

  • Reverend Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.

  • First mass-marketed camera—the Brownie

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    First 35mm still camera developed.

  • General Electric invents the modern flash bulb

  • First light meter with photoelectric cell introduced

  • Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film.

  • Eastman Kodak introduces Kodacolor negative film

  • Chester Carlson receives patent for electric photography (xerography).

  • Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera.

  • Eastman Kodak introduces high speed Tri-X film

  • EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy

  • Polaroid introduces instant color film

  • Photograph of the Earth from the moon.

  • Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the SX-70 camera

  • George Eastman and Edwin Land inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

  • Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera.

  • Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder.

  • Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.

  • Pixar introduces digital imaging processor.

  • Eastman Kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium