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Camera Obscura
the camera obcura was invented. It is an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen. It is used in drawing and for entertainment, and was one of the inventions that led to photography and the camera. -
Nicephore Niepce
Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor, most noted as one of the inventors of photography and a pioneer in the field. He developed heliography, a technique used to produce the world's oldest surviving photograph in 1825. -
Louis Daguerre
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was born. He was a French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photography. -
Daguerrotype
The daguerreotype process (also called daguerreotypy), introduced in 1839, was the first publicly announced photographic process and the first to come into widespread use. -
William Henry Fox Talbot
His work in the 1840s on photo-mechanical reproduction led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure. Talbot is also remembered as the holder of a patent which, some say, affected the early development of commercial photography in Britain. -
Calotype
Calotype or talbotype is an early photographic process introduced in 1841 by William Henry Fox Talbot, using paper coated with silver iodide. -
George Eastman
George Eastman was an American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and popularized the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. -
Eadward Muybridge
He returned to England in 1861 and took up professional photography, learning the wet-plate collodion process, and secured at least two British patents for his inventions. He went back to San Francisco in 1867, and in 1868 his large photographs of Yosemite Valley made him world famous. -
Kodak
Kodak is best known for photographic film products. During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States.