Interactive Timeline By willhavnaer 1771 Thomas Wedgwood thinks to invent photography 1826 Niépce produces first photograph with Camera Obscura 1830 Andrew Jackson sings Indian Removal Act into law 1835 Henry Fox Talbot creates first Calotype 1839 Louis-Jacques-Mande invents daguerreotype 1840 Henry Harrison wins the 1840 presidential election 1843 Anna Atkins produces the first photographic print book 1844 Henry Fox Talbot creates the first photographic book titled “The Pencil of Nature” 1844 The Great Flood of 1844 hits the Missouri River and Mississippi River 1846 Winfield Scott photographs the first war (Mexican American) 1849 The discovery of gold is the beginning of the California Gold Rush 1851 Frederick Scott Archer invented the wet-collodion process 1853 Roger Fenton photographs the Crimean War 1858 Lewis Carrol photographs Victorian England children and uses photographs artistically 1858 Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state 1859 Uncensored photos of the dead are photographed during the battle of Melegnano 1860 Abe Lincoln becomes President 1861 During the Civil War many photographers use the stereographic camera 1861 James Wallace captures first aerial photographs (of Boston) 1866 Silver Gelatin Process invented by José Martinez-Sanchez and Jean Laurent 1871 The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 is passed 1876 Telephone is invented 1879 The light bulb is invented 1882 The U.S. Congress passes the Immigration Act 1888 George Eastman invents the first Kodak camera, using film instead of glass plates 1900 Kodak introduces the “Brownie Camera” which is made for children use