camera By tnboehrns Jan 1, 1500 Alhazen (Ibn Al-haytham) was the first to invented the pinhole camera. Jan 1, 1827 Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with a camera obscura. Jan 1, 1851 Frederick Scoff Archer invented the wet plate negative. Jan 1, 1861 Oliver wendell Holmes invent stereoscope viewer. Jan 1, 1871 Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process. Jan 1, 1889 George Eastman invented film. Jan 1, 1927 General Electric invents the modern flash bulb.