Video TimelineTyler Kelley
Chinese and Greek philosophers described the basic principles of optics and the camera.
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Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light.
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First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Baker.
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Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura
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The first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under 30 minutes of light exposure.
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The first pinhole camera (also called the camera oscura) was invented by Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham).
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The Daguerreotype camera was announced by the French Acedemy of Sciences.
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The first American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.
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The paranormic camera patened by Thomas Sutton.
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Oliver wenderll holmes invents stereoscope viewer.
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1794 First panorama opens, the forerunner of
the movie house invented by Robert Baker
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1814 Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic
image
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1837 Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype
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1840 First American patent issued in
photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.
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1843 First advertisement with a photograph
made in Philadelphia.
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Eugene F. Lally of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory began working on a way to use a mosaic photo sensor to capture digital images.
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1970: George Smith and Willard Boyle of Bell Laboratories built the first solid-state video camera
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Kodak put out their Easy Share digital camera, which made it easy to snap pictures and download them to the computer
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The camera phone was first used in Japan, but quickly spread around the world.
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Kodak put out cameras that didn't have to be connected to a computer in order to download and share the pictures.
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