5th-4th Centuries B.C.Chinese and Greek philosophers describe the basic principles of optics and the camera.
1664-1666Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors.
1727Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light.
1794First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Barker.
1814Joseph Nicéphore Niépce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura - however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded.
1837Daguerre’s first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.
1840First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.
1841William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies.
1843First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia.
1851Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process - images required only two or three seconds of light exposure.
1859Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton.
1861Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer.
1865Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright.
1871Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately.
1880Eastman Dry Plate Company founded.
1884George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.
1888Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.
1898Reverend Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
1900First mass-marketed camera—the Brownie.
1913/1914First 35mm still camera developed.
1927General Electric invents the modern flash bulb.
1932First light meter with photoelectric cell introduced.
1935Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film.
1941Eastman Kodak introduces Kodacolor negative film.
1942Chester Carlson receives patent for electric photography (xerography).
1948Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera.
1954Eastman Kodak introduces high speed Tri-X film.
1960EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy.
1963Polaroid introduces instant color film.
1968Photograph of the Earth from the moon.
1973Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the SX-70 camera.
1977George Eastman and Edwin Land inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
1978Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera.
1980Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder.
1984Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.
1985Pixar introduces digital imaging processor.
1990Eastman Kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.
1664-1666Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors.
1727Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light.
1794First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Barker.
1814Joseph Nicéphore Niépce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura - however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded.
1837Daguerre’s first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.
1840First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.
1841William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies.
1843First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia.
1851Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process - images required only two or three seconds of light exposure.
1859Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton.
1861Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer.
1865Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright.
1871Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately.
1880Eastman Dry Plate Company founded.
1884George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.
1888Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.
1898Reverend Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
1900First mass-marketed camera—the Brownie.
1913/1914First 35mm still camera developed.
1927General Electric invents the modern flash bulb.
1932First light meter with photoelectric cell introduced.
1935Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film.
1941Eastman Kodak introduces Kodacolor negative film.
1942Chester Carlson receives patent for electric photography (xerography).
1948Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera.
1954Eastman Kodak introduces high speed Tri-X film.
1960EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy.
1963Polaroid introduces instant color film.
1968Photograph of the Earth from the moon.
1973Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the SX-70 camera.
1977George Eastman and Edwin Land inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
1978Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera.
1980Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder.
1984Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.
1985Pixar introduces digital imaging processor.
1990Eastman Kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.
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