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History of photo

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  • 1664-1666

    Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors.

  • 1727

    1727
    Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light.

  • 1794

    1794
    First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Barker.

  • 1814

    1814
    Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura - however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded.

  • 1837

    Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.

  • 1840

    First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.

  • 1841

    William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies.

  • 1843

    First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia.

  • 1851

    Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process - images required only two or three seconds of light exposure.

  • 1859

    Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton.

  • 1861

    Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer.

  • 1865

    Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright.

  • 1871

    Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately.

  • 1880

    Eastman Dry Plate Company founded.

  • 1884

    George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.

  • 1900

    First mass-marketed camera—the Brownie.

  • 1932

    First light meter with photoelectric cell introduced.

  • 1942

    Chester Carlson receives patent for electric photography (xerography).

  • 1954

    Eastman Kodak introduces high speed Tri-X film.

  • 1963

    Polaroid introduces instant color film.

  • 1968

    Photograph of the Earth from the moon.

  • 1973

    Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the SX-70 camera.

  • 1978

    Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera.

  • 1980

    Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder.

  • 1984

    Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.

  • 1985

    Pixar introduces digital imaging processor.

  • 1990

    Eastman Kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.