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Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was edited throughtout a year. Meetings and tons of revisions took palce. It was finally signed and printed on January 18th, 1777. The real document is now on display in Washington D.C. -
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Alex's Timeline
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First Permanent photograph
In 1826, french scientist Joeseph Nicphore Niepce, took that photograph, titled View From The Window At Le Gras, at his familys country home. Niepce produced this photo in the houses upstairs window by exposing a bitumen coated plate in a camera obscura for several hours on his windowsill. -
Modern Photography
Daguerre invented a more effective way of pictures. This fixed the images on to a sheet of silver plated copper. -
New Process: 1851
Frederick Scott Archer invented a new process that allowed negatives to be made using glass coated with silver salts and collodion. -
First Color Photo
The enormously influential Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell creates a rudimentary color image by superimposing onto a single screen three black-and-white images each passed through three filters—red, green, and blue. His photo of a multicolored ribbon is the first to prove the efficacy of the three-color method, until then just a theory, and sets the stage for further color innovation, particularly by the Lumißre brothers in France. -
Flexible Roll Of Film
George Eastman invented film with a base that was flexible, unbreakable, and could be rolled. Emulsions coated on a cellulose nitrate film base, such as Eastman's, made the mass-produced box camera a reality. -
First Photogrpah Published In National Geographic: 1889
The first photograph to appear in National Geographic is a relief map of North America. It appears in the magazine's third issue (Volume 1, Number 3, 1889). The first photograph of a natural scene—generally considered the first real photograph in the magazine—is of Herald Island, in the Arctic Ocean, taken from a ship and appearing in the March 1890 issue. -
Ancient Egyption Art
Egyption Art dates back over 3000 years actually. It was divided into 9 distinctive periods. It was developed along the Nile river in Eastern Africa. Importance for religion and respect for the dead influenced their art. -
35mm Camera
As early as 1905, Oskar Barnack had the idea of reducing the format of film negatives and then enlarging the photographs after they had been exposed. As development manager at Leica, he was able to put his theory into practice. He took an instrument for taking exposure samples for cinema film and turned it into the world's first 35 mm camera: the 'Ur-Leica'. -
Titanic
The Titanic sunk on this date. There were 705 survivors of the horrific catastrohpe. September 1, 1985 the ship was discovered and photos were taken. -
World War 1
WW1 was fought between the allies and central powers on the other side. The US entered the war in 1917 after a german u-boat sunk a bunch of civilians. The war ended with the Treaty of Versailles on June 28th, 1919. -
Surrealism
This was an artistic movement that began in 1924. Developed by thinkers and researchers on the hunt to discover the unconscious. It was said to contact the hidden part of the mind which could create poetic truth. -
First Leica
The Leica with built-in collapsible lens is presented at the Spring Trade Fair in Leipzig. 1,000 cameras were produced in the first year alone. The first small-format enlarger is introduced under the name of FILAR. -
First Underwater Color Photo
Ichthyologist William Longley and National Geographic staff photographer Charles Martin use an Autochrome camera and a raft full of explosive magnesium flash powder to illuminate the shallows of Florida's Dry Tortugas and make the first undersea color photographs. The photos, which show reef scenes with fish, are published in the January 1927 National Geographic. -
First Photo Taken From Space
Researchers with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory strap a 35-millimeter camera to a German V-2 missile and launch it into space from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The camera snaps a picture every second and a half as the rocket ascends to 65 miles (105 kilometers) above the surface. The camera falls back to Earth and slams into the ground, but the film, contained in a steel cassette, is unharmed. The developed photos are the first ever to show Earth from space, -
Polaroid
Polaroid photography was invented by Edwin Herbert Land. Land was the American inventor and physicist whose one-step process for developing and printing photos created instant photography. The first Polaroid camera was sold to the public in November, 1948. -
Pop Art
Pop Art started in England in the 1950's and developed in the US in the 60's. In the US, the art differed from Englands with ours depicting reproduced, combined, overlaid, and arranged visual details that make up the American society, -
First Digital Camera
There were some govermental digital camera technologies in use a few years before they became commercial.Sony released the Sony Mavica electronic still camera, the camera which was the first commercial electronic camera. Images were recorded onto a mini disc and then put into a video reader that was connected to a television monitor or color printer. This was a video camera that captured still images and thus started the digital revolution. -
Discovering The Titanic
Emory Kristof and Robert Ballard were on a mission to discover the wreckage of the Titanic. Using sonar and unmanned submersibles, Ballard and Kristof search for weeks and finally find the wreck under more than 12,000 feet of water in a sea canyon near the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. National Geographic publishes a major package on the discovery in its December 1985 issue. It is the first in a cascade of related articles and television programs on the Titanic. -
Digital Camera Trap
George Steinmetz becomes the first to do so using a digital setup. The shoot, meticulously arranged at a watering hole in the Sonoran Desert, involves wired and wireless strobes, a digital SLR camera, and an infrared remote camera trap. The quarry: a close-up of the elusive North American mountain lion. Mountain lions begin showing up quickly, but it takes weeks to get just the right shot, a crouching young mountain lion at water's edge. -
Leica S2 Digital Camera 10802 (Present Day)
Plus the all-metal body of the S2 Camera is waterproof and dustproof with truly precise construction for a durable camera that will thrive in even the most challenging of shooting environments. In addition the camera system is incredibly flexible thanks to a wide selection of compatible accessories including a host of Leica S lenses. It is also specially designed to take full advantage of the latest Leica S Series lenses. - Camera Type Standard Point and Shoot - Resolution 37.5 Megapixel - LCD S
