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Johann Heinrich Schulze makes fleeting sun prints of words by using stencils, sunlight, and a bottled mixture of chalk and silver nitrate in nitric acid, simply as an interesting way to demonstrate that the substance inside the bottle darkens where it is exposed to light.
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Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light.
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First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Barker.
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Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image using an early device for projecting real-life imagery called a camera obscura. However, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded.
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Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype, an image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.
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William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process, the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies.
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The first advertisement with a photograph is published in Philadelphia.
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Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright law.
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Reverend Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
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First mass-marketed camera, called the Brownie, goes on sale.
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Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder for capturing moving picture.
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Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.
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Pixar introduces the digital imaging processor.
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Eastman Kodak announces Photo Compact Disc as a digital image storage medium.
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Kyocera Corporation introduces the VP-210 VisualPhone, the world's first mobile phone with built-in camera for recording videos and still photos.
