|
1802 |
Thomas Wedgwood, following the experiments of
Schulze and Scheele, produces silhouettes by use of silver
nitrate but is unable to fix the images. |
|
1806 |
William Hyde Wollaston invents the camera
lucida. |
|
1816 |
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's attempts at
photography he called heliography (sundrawing) records a view
from his workroom window on paper sensitized with silver
chloride, but he is only partially able to fix the
image. |
|
1816-26 |
Niépce achieves his first photographic image
with a camera obscura. |
|
1819 |
Sir John Herschel discovers the photographic
fixative, hyposulfite of soda. |
|
1822 |
Niépce succeeds in obtaining a photographic
copy of an engraving superimposed on glass. |
|
1822 |
Niépce, using a camera, makes a view from his
workroom window on a pewter plate. |
|
1827 |
Charles Wheatstone describes a moving
shutter. |
|
1829 |
Niépce and Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre form a
10-year partnership to develop photography. |
|
1829 |
Wheatstone invents a non-photographic
stereoscopic viewing device. |
|
1833 |
William Henry Fox Talbot begins experimenting
with photogenic drawings. |
|
1835 |
Talbot photographs window at Lacock
Abbey. |
|
1837 |
Louis
Jacques Mandé Daguerre creates
his first daguerreotype. |
|
1839 |
The
daguerreotype is publicly announced at the Academy
of Sciences in Paris. |
|
1839 |
Giroux Daguerreotype
camera is introduced; first commercially-manufactured
camera.. |
|
1839 |
The Petzval lens is introduced. For detail of
this click
here. |
|
1841 |
William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype
process. For more detail click
here. |
|
1843 |
Anna Atkins produced the first photographically
illustrated album entitled: British Algae: Cyanotype
Impressions. |
|
1844 |
Talbot publishes
Pencil of Nature. |
|
1845 |
Mathew Brady begins to photograph famous
persons of his time, including Daniel Webster, Edgar Allan
Poe, James Fenimore Cooper. |
|
1847 |
Louis Désiré Blanquard-Evard improves Talbot's
Calotype process and sets up a photographic printing
establishment. |
|
1848 |
Claude Felix Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor uses
albumen on glass plates for negatives. |
|
1849 |
Maxime Du Camp travels to Egypt to photograph
monuments. |
|
1849 |
Stereophotography, which uses a
double lens camera to produce two views that together produce
a three- dimensional view, is developed. |
