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Joseph Nicephore invents the first camera.
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Daguerre and Niepce's son sold the rights for the daguerrotype
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over seventy daguerreotype studios in New York City alone.
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Frederick Scoff Archer invented wet paint negative. he coated glass with light-sensitive silver salts. Because it was glass and not paper,
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Hamilton Smith painted A thin sheet of iron was used to provide a base for light-sensitive material, yielding a positive image
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a glass negative plate with a dried gelatin emulsion.
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George Eastman invented film with a base that was flexible, unbreakable, and could be rolled.
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Commercially viable color films