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1825 - Nicéphore Niépce takes the first permanent Photograph , a landscape that required eight hours of exposure.

1835 - William Fox Talbot produces early permanent photographs through his own process.

1839 - Louis Daguerre patents the Daguerreotype .

1840 - William Fox Talbot invented the positive / negative process widely used in modern photography. He refers to this as Photogenic Drawing .

1851 - Introduction of the Collodion Process by Frederick Scott Archer

1871 - The Gelatin Emulsion is invented by Richard Maddox

1872 - Louis Ducos Du Hauron creates the first Color Photograph . {Link without Title}

1876 - F. Hurter & V. C. Driffield begin systematic evaluation of sensitivity characteristics of film - science of Sensitometry

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 Base 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 Lumière - 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 be 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 .

1913 - Kinemacolor, the first commercial "natural color" system for movies is invented.

1914 - Kodak introduced the Autographic system.

1923 - Doc Harold Edgerton invents the Xenon Flash Lamp and strobe photography

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 multi-layered color film.

1948 - The Hasselblad camera was introduced.

1948 - Edwin H. Land introduces the first Polaroid Instant Image Camera .

1957 - First Asahi Pentax SLR introduced.

1959 - Nikon F introduced.

1959 - AGFA introduces the first fully automatic camera, the ''Optima''.

1963 - Kodak introduces the Instamatic

1964 - First Pentax Spotmatic SLR introduced.

1973 - Fairchild Semiconductor releases the first large image forming CCD Chip ; 100 rows and 100 columns.

1986 - Kodak scientists invent the world's first megapixel sensor

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