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Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors.
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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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Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process so that images required only two or three seconds of light exposure.
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George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.
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First mass-marketed camera, called the Brownie, goes on sale
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First light meter with photoelectric cell is introduced
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Pioneers George Eastman and Edwin Land are inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.
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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.
