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Humphry Davy invented the first electric light
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Wedgewood & Davy's silver nitrate experiments
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Lewis and Clark reach the pacific ocean
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patented by Niepce
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created by Niepce
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taken by Nicéphore Niépce with a camera obscura
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W.A. Burt invents the typewriter
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From September to October to study animals, aboard his boat the Beagle.
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Introduced by William Henry Fox Talbot, the first positive prints
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on the behalf of Daguerre, who had "a sore throat".
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photo taken by Talbot using his photographic process
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Invented by Henry Fox Talbot
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One of the first non-silver methods invented by John Herschel
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James W. Marshall finds gold in California
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Taken by Thomas Sutton, using the three color method invented by James Clerk Maxwell
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Abraham Lincoln abolishes slavery
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Transcontinental railroad completed
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Muybridge creates his photo-series using high speed cameras and trip wires
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The first car, invented by Karl Benz
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“You push the button, we do the rest.”
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Discovery by German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
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The first mass marketed camera by Kodak for $1
