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  1879

Karl Klic improves photoengraving process

Dennis Redmond develops »electric telescope« to produce moving images

  1880

Eastman Dry Plate Company founded

First book about television, »The Electric Telescope«, is published

Stephen Horgan's »A Scene in Shantytown« is printed in »halftone« in the New York Daily Graphic

  1884 (?)

Etienne Jules Marey develops chronophotography

  1886

Frederick E. Ives develops halftone engraving process that makes it possible to reproduce photographic images in the same operation as printing text

  1886-69

Heinrich R. Hertz produces radio waves

  1887

New York Camera Club founded

  1888

Eastman markets the Kodak camera and roll film

Charles Driffield and Ferdinand Hurter begin working on methods for measuring image brightness, exposure, and emulsion sensitivity; they publish a work on sensitomerty in 1890

  1889

Hannibal Goodwin develops celluloid varnish to keep film from curling

George Eastman applies for patent on motion-picture roll film

Peter Henry Emerson publishes the book »Naturalistic Photography«; it attempts to counteract the artificiality of pictorial photography; in 1890 Emerson retracts the idea that photography can be an art

The first successful anastigmatic lens is created, a Protar f 7.5

  1890

Karl Ferdinand Braun invents the Cathode Ray Tube (CRT)

Photographs begin to supplant hand-drawn illustrations in leading periodicals

The first camera images of New York slums by Jacob Riis appear in the New York Sun;  Riis' book, »How the Other Half Lives« is published

Photo-Secessions begin throughout Europe and the United States; they through 1910 and result in the creation of several pictorialist organizations such as: The Linked Ring in Great Britain, The Photo-Club de Paris, the Kleeblatt in Germany, and the Photo-Secession in New York

  1891

The first telephoto lenses begin to appear

  1892

Frederick Ives' first complete system for natural color photography

  1893

Thomas Alva Edison patents the kinetoscope

  1894

»Premiere exposition d'art photographique« exhibit opens in Paris

  1895

Auguste and Louis Lumière's »Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory«

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovers x-rays

The Lumières and Edison demonstrate motion picture cameras and projectors

  1896

Josef Maria Eder and Eduard Valenta publish stereoscopic Röntgen photographs

  1897

First issue of Camera Notes is published by Alfred Stieglitz

  1898

Eugene Atget begins his photographic career in Paris

Jimmy Hare photographs Spanish-American War in Cuba




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