The first photograph was taken in 1814 by Nicéphore Niépce using a sliding wooden box camera made by Charles and Vincent Chevalier in Paris; the photograph though was not permanent and it faded. Niépce built on a discovery by Johann Heinrich Schultz (1724): a silver and chalk mixture darkens under exposure to light. While this was the introduction of photography, the history of the camera can be traced back much further. Photographic cameras were a development of the camera obscura, a device dating back to the Book of Optics (1021) of the Iraqi Arab scientist Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen),which uses a pinhole or lens to project an image of the scene outside upside-down onto a viewing surface. 
1814 : A Frenchman called Joseph Nicéphore Niépce obtained the first ever photographic image with his 
“Camera Obscura”. This image was taken by having the shutter left open for eight hours ad faded shortly after.
“Camera Obscura”. This image was taken by having the shutter left open for eight hours ad faded shortly after.1837 : The French artist Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre took the first fixed image on his Daguerreotype. This image did not fade and took less than thirty minutes of exposure.
1841 : William Henry Talbot patented the process of Calotype- which involves the first negative-positive printing process making it possible to make multiple copies of a picture.
1841 : William Henry Talbot patented the process of Calotype- which involves the first negative-positive printing process making it possible to make multiple copies of a picture.1843 : The first advertisement using a photograph is made in Philadelphia
1851 : The Collodion process is invented by Frederick Scott Archer. This requires only two or three seconds of sunlight exposure for the image to be captured.
1859 : The panoramic camera is patented In Sutton.
1871 : A man called Richard Leach Maddox invents a gelatin dry plate silver bromide process-negatives are no longer needed to be developed immediately.
1880 : Eastman dry plate company is founded.
1884 : Flexible, paper based photographic film is invented by company “Eastman”.
1888 : Eastman has another invention, the Kodak roll film camera.
1900 : The turn of the century brought around the first mass marketed camera “the Browning”.
1913-1914 : The first 35mm still camera is developed
1927 : Electricity company General Electric invents the modern flash bulb which enables the photograph to be brighter or taken in dark areas and seen clearly in the finished picture.
1935 : Eastman Kodak starts selling Kodachrome film on the market
1941 : Eastman Kodak introduces Kodacolour negative film
1948 : Edwin Land markets his invention, the Polaroid camera.
1954 : Eastman Kodak develops hi-speed tri-x film.
1960 : EG&G produces a camera that can withstand extreme underwater depths for the U.S. navy.
1963 : Polaroid releases instant colour film.
1968 : The first ever literally “out of this world” photograph is taken. And we receive an image of our planet taken from the moon
1973 : Polaroid develops one step instant colour film, shoot and print with one click.
1978 : Konica invents the point and shoot auto focus camera
1980 : Sony publicly gives a demonstration of their newest addition to the original camera, the camcorder.
1984 : Four years later canon demonstrates their next big thing for many years, an electronic still camera.
1985 : Pixar releases a digital imaging processor.
1990 : Eastman Kodak develops the photo cd as a digital image storing device.
1851 : The Collodion process is invented by Frederick Scott Archer. This requires only two or three seconds of sunlight exposure for the image to be captured.
1859 : The panoramic camera is patented In Sutton.
1871 : A man called Richard Leach Maddox invents a gelatin dry plate silver bromide process-negatives are no longer needed to be developed immediately.
1880 : Eastman dry plate company is founded.
1884 : Flexible, paper based photographic film is invented by company “Eastman”.
1888 : Eastman has another invention, the Kodak roll film camera.
1900 : The turn of the century brought around the first mass marketed camera “the Browning”.
1913-1914 : The first 35mm still camera is developed
1927 : Electricity company General Electric invents the modern flash bulb which enables the photograph to be brighter or taken in dark areas and seen clearly in the finished picture.
1935 : Eastman Kodak starts selling Kodachrome film on the market
1941 : Eastman Kodak introduces Kodacolour negative film
1948 : Edwin Land markets his invention, the Polaroid camera.
1954 : Eastman Kodak develops hi-speed tri-x film.
1960 : EG&G produces a camera that can withstand extreme underwater depths for the U.S. navy.
1963 : Polaroid releases instant colour film.
1968 : The first ever literally “out of this world” photograph is taken. And we receive an image of our planet taken from the moon
1973 : Polaroid develops one step instant colour film, shoot and print with one click.
1978 : Konica invents the point and shoot auto focus camera
1980 : Sony publicly gives a demonstration of their newest addition to the original camera, the camcorder.
1984 : Four years later canon demonstrates their next big thing for many years, an electronic still camera.
1985 : Pixar releases a digital imaging processor.
1990 : Eastman Kodak develops the photo cd as a digital image storing device.
