1. Julianne Kidd
First Photo of the Sun First Positive First Bird’s Eye view
using the daguerreotype Photographic Prints on Photos
First Permanent Image process, French Paper Felix Tournachon was
French inventor Joseph physicists Louis Fizeau Frenchman Louis Desire in a tethered balloon
Nicephore Niepce used a and Leon Foucault took Blanquart-Evrard invented hovering over Paris
camera to burn a the first successful a type of photographic though the photo is
permanent image of the photographs of the sun paper using table lost, but in 1860 the
countryside at his Le on April 2; the exposure salt, albumen, and silver American James
Gras, France estate onto a was 1/6th of a second nitrate the exposure was Wallace Black took a
chemical coated pewter and the photo captured short and produced a surviving photo of
plate several sunspots picture without the need Boston from 1200 feet
1826 1845 for development
1850 1852
1839 1847 1851
First Photo of a Person French First Photo of Wet Plate Process
painter and chemist, Louis Jacques Lightning
Mande Daguerre photographed a
Invented
scene of a Paris street from his
Thomas Easterly English inventor Frederick
apartment window using a obscura took the first Scott Archer discovered that
camera and his newly invented photograph of collodion is an ideal
daguerreotype process which has a lightning element for adhering light-
long exposure period. The sensitive material to glass
Daguerreotype soon becomes the
most common way of taking
which created fast exposure
photographs speeds

2. First Action Photos
Eadweard Muybridge used
new emulsions that allowed Introduction of
Fist Color Photo nearly instantaneous Nitrocellulose Film
Scottish physicist, James photography, the 1878 photo Photography Eastman Dry
series is of a galloping horse
Clerk Maxwell Plate and Film Company
and was created with 12
superimposed onto a cameras each outfitted with a introduced nitrocellulose, the
single screen, three black trip wire to determine if in a first flexible and transparent
and white images each horse’s gate, all 4 hooves film it was extremely
passed through 3 filters- leave the ground flammable and prone to
red, green, and blue (they do) deteriorating over time
1861 1877 1889
1871 1880 1890
Dry Plate Process Eastman Dry Plate Kodak Brownie Box
English inventor R.L. Company Established Camera with Roll Film
Maddox used silver American entrepreneur When it was
bromide and gelatin George Eastman introduced, it sold for
to create this new invented and patented $1, it was named after a
process, it is sensitive a coating machine for popular cartoon series
to light; and also mass producing gelatin and marketed especially
opened photography dry plates, which then to amateurs even children;
to amateurs lead to the Kodak 100,000 units were sold in
Company the first year alone!

3. Polaroid Camera
Invented
First Underwater Photos Edwin H. Land began work
Ichthyologists William Kodachrome Developed in 1944 on a self-
Longley and Charles Martin Kodak released 35mm film developing film, then in
used an Autochrome for still photography, it was 1947 he released his
camera and a raft full of first commercially invention called, Polaroid.
explosive magnesium flash successful as amateur color Later in 1963, Polaroid
powder to illuminate the film, and in most of 20th released a colored instant
shallows of Florida’s Dry century, Kodachrome is the film, Polacolor, and an
Tortugas film industry’s standard Instamatic camera
1926 1936 1947
1931 1940 1946
Electric Flash Invented First High Speed First Photo Taken from
and patented Photography Images Space
American Engineer Dr. Harold, a professor of Researchers at the Johns
Harold Edgerton invented electrical engineering at Hopkins University
the stroboscopic light, the MIT perfected a high strapped a 35mm camera
device is speed stroboscopic to a German V2 Missile
fast, powerful, and photograph and launched it into space.
reusable; allowing him to The camera snapped a
take clear photographs of picture every half a second
fast moving subjects as it went 65 miles above
the surface

4. Web Photo Standards
Established
Joint Photographic
First Digital Camera Experts Group (JPEG)
First View of Earth Invented released it’s guidelines for
From the Moon Steven Sasson, the compressing images for First Picture of DNA
Taken by Lunar Obiter camera was the size of a storage and transmission Enzo Di Fabrizio, a
1 on August 23 and toaster and used an over the internet using a physics professor at
shot from 236,000 electronic sensor called 64-kilobit/sec ISDN line the Magna Graecia
miles; shows half of a charge coupled device and becomes the national Unniversity in Italy
earth from Istanbul to (CCD) and a recording standard for viewing used a electron
Cape Town cassette images on the web. microscope
1966 1975 1992 2012
1972 1991 2000
First Camera Phone
“Blue Marble” Adobe Photoshop Japanese electronics
Earth Photo Released
firm, Sharp, invented the
Taken In February, Adobe systems
released the first digital J-SH04 or J-Phone, it used
first photo of an integrated image sensor
image-editing
earth in full software, Photoshop and 0.1 megapixels and set
view, taken on 1.0, developed by John and the stage for the
December 7 by Thomas Knoll; it was widespread “citizen
Apollo 17 originally compatible with
photojournalism” of today
Apple, but then a Windows
version was released in 1992