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The Chinese philosopher Mozi draws and records the image created by light rays from a pinhole into a dark room.
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Greek philosopher Aristotle studies the patterns that light makes when it shines through leaves and sieves.
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Arab mathematician and physicist Alhazen invents the camera obscura whilst studying the human sight. He also observes that the projection is the opposite of the item.
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The english monk and scientist Roger Bacon created optical illusions by using the concept of light and shadows along with mirrors.
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Dutch scientist Reinerus Gemma-Frisius illustrates the darkened rooms of the camera obscura
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Italian author and scholar Johannes Kepler coins the term camera obscura to name what people have been experimenting with light.
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Wedgwood created silhouettes of objects by contact printing them onto paper covered in silver nitrate.
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French scientist made the first photograph in a camera obscura by placing an engraving onto a metal plate covered in bitumen into the light.
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The french scientist Louis Daguerre made a photograph by fixing an image to a silver plate when covering it in iodine, putting it in the camera obscura and let it expose.
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English botanist and mathematician Henry Fox Talbot had worked on creating a way to make several copies of images by putting an image in a silver-salt solution and exposing it light making it turn negative. Contact prints could then be made with them.
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English sculptor Frederick Scoff Archer created the wet-plate negative using a collodion solution to coat glass with light sensitive salts.
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Dr Richard L. Maddox used image plates covered in dried gelatin so that they could be developed later on.
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George Eastman an industrialist and photographer creates a film for photos that could not be broken and could be rolled up. Now box cameras could be mass produced.
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Augusta and Louis Lumiere create the autochrome which is a colour screen film material and the first additive
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Dr Edward Land invented the first instant photo process originally called Polaroid Land.
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The company Canon demonstrated the first digital camera which they had created.
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The company Adobe created and released the photo editing program for the mackintosh named Photoshop 1.0.
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The company Sharp and J-Phone created and released the first ever camera phone to the public in Japan.