Timeline of photography technology

Timeline of photography technology

1826 - Nicéphore Nièpce takes the first permanent photograph
1835 - William Fox Talbot produces early permanent photographs through his own process.
1839 - Jacques Daguerre patents the the Daguerreotype.
1840 - William Fox Talbot invented the positive / negative process of photography used in all modern photography. He refers to this as photogenic drawing.
1878 - Eadweard Muybridge made high-speed time lapse photographic demonstration of a horse airborne during the gallop using a trip-wire system.
1887 - Celluloid film introduced.
1888 - Kodak n°1 box camera is mass marketed; first easy-to-use camera.
1891 - Thomas Edison patents the "kinetoscopic camera[?]" (motion pictures)
1895 - Auguste and Louis Lumiere - Invented the cinématographe[?]
1898 - Kodak introduced their Folding Pocket Kodak
1900 - Kodak introduced their first Brownie.
1901 - Kodak introduced the 120 film.
1902 - Arthur Korn[?] devises practical phototelegraphy[?] technology (reduction of photographic images to data bits which can transmitted by wire to other locations); Wire-Photos in wide use in Europe by 1910, and transmitted intercontinentally by 1922.
1907 - The Autochrome Lumière is the first color photography process marketed.
1912 - Vest Pocket Kodak using 127 film.
1914 - Kodak introduced the Autographic system.
1925 - The Leica introduced the 35mm format to still photography.
1934 - The 135 film cartridge was introduced, making 35mm easy to use.
1936 - Development of Kodachrome multy-layered color film.
1948 - The Hasselblad camera was introduced.
1948 - Edwin H. Land introduces the first Polaroid instant image camera.
1959 - Nikon F introduced.
1959 - Agfa introduces the first fully automatic camera, the Optima.
1963 - Kodak introduces the Instamatic
1973 - Fairchild Semiconductor releases the first large image forming CCD chip; 100 rows and 100 columns.