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In the summer of 1826, A man named Joseph Nicephore Niepce create the first photographic image using a camera obscure
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In 1837 Louis Daguerre creates images on silver plated copper developed with warmed mercury.
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In 1851 a sculptor in London named Scott Archer improves the photographic resolution by spreading chemicals on a sheet of glass.
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Adolphe Disderi developes "carte-de-visite" photography in Paris, leading to a world wide expansion in portrait studios for the next decade.
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Ducas de Hauron publishes a book proposing a variety of methods for color photography.
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This was the center of a preiod in which the U.S congress sent photoaphers out to the west. The most famous pictures were taken by William Jackson and Tim O'sullivan.
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The first kodak camera is created. With twenty foot roll of paper.
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In 1889 some improvements are made to the Kodak camera. Instead of paper, a roll of film is used.
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First commercial color film, the autochrome plates manufactured b Luminere brothers in France.
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During WWII the developent of multi layer color negative film is in progress,