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Obscura
Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura - however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded. -
Birth of Modern Technology
Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure. -
New Developments
Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately -
Roll-film Camera
Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera. -
Flash Bulb
General Electric invents the modern flash bulb. -
Waterproof Camera
EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy.
