Events
1685: Johann Zahn publishes the first design of a camera.
Known as the "Artificialis
Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium."1827: Heliography, the world’s first photographic process,
invented by Nicephore Niepce.1900: The Kodak Brownie camera.
The first portable/mass market camera.1948: Edwin Land Invents the first polaroid camera.
It can print a picture automatically
as it develops within a minute.1981: The development of the world's first
digital camera, the Sony Mavica.2000: The world's first camera phone.1839: Louis Daguerre, the Daguerreotype camera: used an iodine sensitive
silver plate that was curated with mercury vapor to make photographs that didn't fade.1848: The beginning of Photojournalism.
First used in France during the Crimean War.1835: Henry Fox Talbot invented the method of
spreading a gelatine emulsion on paper,
known as a Celluloid Roll Film1888: The company KODAK mass produces
the camera with Celluloid film to be
more accessible to the public.1888: The Roundhay Garden Scene
the first motion picture film.1851: Fredrick Scott Archer invents
"The Collodion Process".
The process reduces light exposure time to
merely just 2-3 seconds.1978: Konica introduces the first autofocus,
point-and-shoot camera.1984: Canon produces the first digital electronic still camera.1843:The first advertisement with a photograph
published in Philadelphia.1865: Photographs are added to be protected
under the copyright law.1871: Richard Leach Maddox invents the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process.
Photo negatives now no longer have to be developed immediately.1913: First 35mm still camera is developed.1927: General Electric invents the
modern flash bulb.1850: Start of the Civil War1812: The War of 18121917: The U.S. enters WWI1910: World War I Begins1940: World War II Begins1960: Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement2001: 9/11, Attack on Twin Towers1848: Gold is discovered in California
Begins Western Gold Rush1860: Abraham Lincoln is elected president of the United States1863: The Emancipation Declaration frees slaves1865: Abraham Lincoln is assassinated1903: The Wright brothers' first flight1920: the 19th ammendment is ratified. Women gain the right to vote.1929: Stock Market crash,
beginning of the Great Depression1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis1969: The First Moon Landing1865: Beginning of the Reconstruction Era1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone1941: Pearl Harbor is bombed,
The U.S. enters WWII1965: March on WashingtonJoseph Nicéphore Niépce, View from the Window at Le Gras, 1826, PhotographRoger Fenton, General Pierre Bosquet of France gives orders to his men, 1855, PhotographAnsel Adams, Clearing Winter Storm, 1938, PhotographRichard Avedon, A Fable in 24 Episodes, 1995, PhotographDorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936, PhotographLouis Le Prince, The Roundhay Garden Scene, 1888, Motion PictureLewis Hine, Cotton Mill Girl, 1908, PhotographAlfred Eisenstaedt, V-J Day in Times Square, 1945, PhotographHarold Edgerton, Milk Drop Coronet, 1957, PhotographYousuf Karsh, Winston Churchill, 1941, Photograph1963: Polaroid introduces the instant color film
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