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Interactive Timeline
Interactive Timeline photography timeline 1800-1910 -
Humphry Davy and Thomas Wedgwood
Wedgewood seeks to transfer designs to pottery using camera Obscura. These early attempts failed however provided a foundation to build from. Humphry Davy wrote and published the findings by Wedgwood as, “An Account of a Method of Copying Paintings upon Glass, and of Making Profiles, by the Agency of Light upon Nitrate of Silver. Invented by T. Wedgwood, Esq.”. -
Locomotion #1 First public railway in the world
The world's first steam-powered passenger railroad was the Stockton & Darlington Railway. Consisting of 25 miles of track through Darlington England. In September 1825, Robert Stephenson & Co. supplied the first steam locomotive for the railway, named Locomotion. -
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s View from the Window at Le Gras. c. 1826.
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s View from the Window at Le Gras was considered to be the world's first permanent photograph.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78KfCkCN3ck
Works Cited
Center, Harry Ransom. “Articles.” Ransom Center Magazine, 5 May 2014, sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/2014/05/05/from-the-outside-in-first-photograph/.
Marien, Mary Warner. Photography: a Cultural History. Pearson, 2015 p12. -
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s meets Louis-Jacques-Mand`e Daguerre
Louis-Jacques-Mand`e Daguerre was looking to find a way to capture permanent images she saw in his camera obscura In 1829, he had formed a partnership with Nicéphore Niépce, who had been working on a similar project how to make a permanent image using light and chemistry. -
Hercule Florence photographie (light writing)
Hercule Florence a french naturalist was cataloging plants, animals, and the environment of the Amazon. He was researching ways of capturing the sounds of various animals. Florence's research was complex and he was having difficulty with print and distribution of his work. As he sought out was to print he decided to utilize sunlight and silver nitrate. His experiments produced what is now a photocopy first capturing pharmacy labels.
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William Henry Fox Talbot
"Latticed window" is the world’s earliest surviving negative. Taken by Talbot in his family home Lacock Abby. Talbot experimented with paper made light-sensitive by coating it with silver salts in order to capture images. This work laid the foundation for the calotype. -
Battle of the Alamo
The battle of the Alamo was a 13 day battle for the fort being held by 187 Texans. The Texans were attempting to hold the fort from Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna, who led an army of 5,000 soldiers. All of the men were killed and only a few women and noncombatants were spared. -
Bayard invented the process of direct positive photography.
Bayard created a process for photography using a chemical process to treat paper to capture sharp images. Bayard was subject to some controversy by missing out on being one of the original developers of photography. He produced the self-image a "drowned man" as a reaction to his feelings about being lesser known for his work. -
Louis J. Daguerre and the Daguerreotype
The daguerreotype was announced in 1839 by Louis Daguerre. He had perfected his process and renegotiated his contract with Nie`pce through Nie`pce's son in order to claim himself as the inventor. -
Patent filed for Telegraph by Samuel Finley Breese Morse
1832 Samuel Finley Breese Morse began perfecting his version of an electric telegraph after he missed the death of his wife due to lag in communication.
1836 work in completing morse code is nearly complete.
1840 patent filed.
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Calotype
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INCmDNC5KJE Calotype comes from beautiful impression in Greek.
This was a groundbreaking process. The negatives could be used again and again to produce more pictures. -
Irish Potato Famine
The Irish Potato Famine began in 1845 when a fungus-like organism called Phytophthora infestans spread rapidly throughout Ireland. The infestation ruined up to one-half of the potato crop that year, and about three-quarters of the crop over the next seven years. It is said to have killed over a million people killed nearly one-eighth of the entire population of Ireland. -
John McCosh
McCosh was credited as the first-named war photographer. He captured images with calotype negatives during the Second Sikh War. -
California Gold Rush
California gold rush is said to have started January of 1848, when J Marshall found gold at Sutter’s Mill, Coloma, California. The California Gold Rush became the largest and most famous gold rush in the history of the world. Although most people didn't make their money directly from gold. A lot of money was made of prospectors in the form of supplies and services. Mercury the main component in extracting gold was mined throughout Ca. Many of the Mercury mines are still being discovered today. -
J.T. Zealy Slave photos
Dr. Agassiz commissioned Zealy to photograph several of B. F. Taylor's Columbia plantation slaves. This was said to be an anthropological project that claimed humans were not a single species. 15 daguerreotypes of slaves mostly in the nude were not publicized at the time and were later harshly criticized by twentieth-century historians for perpetuating racial stereotypes while promoting white superiority. There has been a lawsuit brought on Harvard in 2019 regarding these photos. -
The Photographic Society of London was formed.
The Photographic Society was not the first photographic society but it was the first to be formally organized to have been in continuous existence in the same form since its foundation. One of the world's oldest photographic societies receiving patronage from Queen Victoria. -
Crimean War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uqTaELp3qI
https://www.loc.gov/collections/fenton-crimean-war-photographs/about-this-collection/ This is a good link to cover the war as I have only 500 characters provided with this time toast service. Also a link to some historic photos. -
Tintype invented by Hamilton L. Smith in 1856
Images were developed was based on the "wet collodion" process used to produce ambrotypes. The tintype was a cheaper alternative to paper prints made from a negative transferring instead to metal. and was extremely popular from 1856 till they fell out of use in the early 1900s. Many soldiers captured images during the civil war with tintype photos. -
Lincoln Killed
April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Booth Shot the president with a .44 caliber derringer pistol. Lincoln passed away on the morning of 4/15/65 from his injury. -
Sleep, 1867 by Henry Peach Robinson
This photo is dated 1867 from Henery Robinson. Robinson was an English photographer and author. He was known for joining multiple negatives onto a single image. -
Timothy O’Sullivan
Timothy O’Sullivan became the first photographer to Capture men working in an underground mineshaft. O'Sullivan used a magnesium flare as his light source to capture his subjects. -
Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
Alfred Nobel a Swedish scientist worked hard to improve nitroglycerine as an explosive that could be used in blasting rock and in mining. He knew that nitroglycerine was very shock sensitive. Nobel discovered if he mixed nitroglycerin with silica he could form a paste creating dynamite. Dynamite was more stable and when used with blasting caps made it safer to work with and transport. -
Carl Dammann Ethnological Photographic Gallery of the Various Races of Mankind.
Society of Anthropology, Ethnology, and Prehistory of Berlin commissioned Dammann to photograph the African and Arab crewmen who had arrived in the port of Hamburg with a fleet from Zanzibar. This was another example of an attempt to classify humans into separate species. The book had 642 photos at print. Dammann passed away before his book could be published in german. His brother Frederick completed his work and it was published a year after his death in 1874. -
President Garfield Killed
James Garfield the 20th president was shot in the back by Charles Guiteau on 7/2/1881. Having served only 4 months into his term as president people saw him as a very promising leader. -
Eadweard Muybridge Animal Locamotion
https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/eadweard_muybridge/?ds_rl=1263130&gclid=Cj0KCQiA4NTxBRDxARIsAHyp6gCdGELY-nKDs7owMyfAKo769CivNsopNF9a-heCshWkXV7BF1nkr2YaApMlEALw_wcB
This video is great and explains it far better than I will in the limited word count -
Wounded Knee Massacre
On December 29, 1890, on Wounded Knee Creek South Dakota events resulted in the deaths of more than 250-300, Native Americans. These people were guilty of no crime and were noncombatants. Most were women and children. As they fled they were pursued by soldiers up to 3 miles before they were all killed. Most victims were members of the Miniconjou band of the Lakota Sioux who had been intercepted by military forces after they fled their reservation in South Dakota for refuge in the Badlands.
