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The first telegraph line opened up the modern communication era in 1844. Which set up for many famous TV shows to come on air like American idol. https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/television/277292 -
Early photographs were called sun pictures, because sunlight itself was used to create the image. https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/photography/276410 -
Étienne-Jules Marey in 1882 invented the chronophotographic gun. https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/%C3%89tienne-Jules-Marey/329127 -
In 1888 George Easton introduced the simple box camera. https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/George-Eastman/274110 -
Motion Pictures illustrate moving images. https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/motion-pictures/275951 -
In 1939, a man named Louis Daguerre introduced an early form of the camera known as the Daguerreotype. https://explore.proquest.com/sirsdiscoverer/document/3219406254?searchid=1760638178&accountid=3541 -
In 1947 Edwin Herbert Land introduced the first Polaroid camera, which delivers a black-and-white picture in seconds. https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/Edwin-H-Land/275365 -
Developed in the late 1980s, the holographic camera uses two beams of natural light put out of phase by a double refractive crystal. https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/Conoscope/310816 -
Alfred Nobel created a camera that floated down from space taking photos https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/alfred-nobels-rocket-camera-117825125/ -
Elon Musk is developing a brain chip that can take pictures. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/elon-musk-wants-to-test-brain-implants-in-people-180981231/