[BCE-1800]  [1825]  [1850]  [1875]  [1900]  [1925]  [1950]  [1975]  [1990]



Peter Mark Roget demonstrates the persistence of vision with his »Thaumatrope«

  1826

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce uses bitumen of judea for photographs on metal, makes the first successful camera photograph on a pewter plate: »View From My Window at Gras« - a direct positive he called a »heliograph«. Exposure was approximately eight hours.

  1829

Niépce and Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre form a 10 year partnership to develop photography

  1832

Brazilian Hercules Florence discovers a method for imaging by the action of light

Wheatstone invents a non-photographic »stereoscopic viewing device«

  1832-33

Image animation novelties »Phenakistoscope« and »Zoetrope« invented

  1833

William Henry Fox Talbot begins experiments with photogenic drawings
  
  1837

Daguerre's first daguerreotype

  1839

The Daguerreotype is publicly announced at the Academy of Sciences in Paris and given to the world

Hippolyte Bayard produces direct-positive images on sensitized paper

Talbot formally announces a paper process to achieve images by action of light; presents his photogenic drawings at the Royal Society in London

  1840

Alexander Wolcott issued first American patent in photography for his camera

  1841

Talbot patents the Calotype process

  1843

D. O. Hill and Robert Adamson open portrait studio in Edinburgh

  1844

»The Record of The Death-Bed of C.M.W.« is the first book to include a photograph (calotype).

Talbot publishes »The Pencil of Nature«, a publication discussing the range and possibilities of photography, illustrated with numerous original photographs

  1846

Carl Zeiss opens optical instrument factory in Germany

First known photograph, a daguerreotype, is taken of The White House and President (Polk) and First Lady by John Plumbe, Jr.

  1847

Louis Désiré Blanquard-Evard improves Talbot's Calotype process and sets up a photographic printing establishment

Niepce de St.-Victor proposes using glass plates coated with albumen and silver halides as negatives

Photographic Club founded in London

  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

Mathew Brady issues the Gallery of Illustrious Americans

David Brewster invents a stereoscopic viewer

Gustave LeGray introduces waxed-paper negative process in France

  1850

Albumen printing paper introduced by L. D. Blanquart-Evrard




[BCE-1800]  [1825]  [1850]  [1875]  [1900]  [1925]  [1950]  [1975]  [1990]