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Isaac Newton discovers a white light composed of many different colors .
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Johann Heinrich Schulze found out that silver darkened upon exposure to light
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Joseph Niepce takes the first photographic image with camera obscura however ,the image did not last long because the picture needed 8 hours of light exposure .
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Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.
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First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia.
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Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright
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Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately.
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George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.
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First 35mm still camera developed.
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General Electric invents the modern flash bulb.
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Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film.
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Chester Carlson receives patent for electric photography xerography.
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Polaroid introduces instant color film.
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Eastman Kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.
