| 1614 |
Angelo Sala publishes a pamphlet about his observations noting that powered silver nitrate would blacken if exposed to sunlight.
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| 1827 |
At or before 1827 Joseph Nicephre Niepe (1765-1833) produces the first photographs with a camera obscura using pewter plates coated with sensitised bitumen.
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| 1835 |
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) produces a clear picture of one of the widows at Laycock Abbey, Wiltshire. This was the first negative.
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| 1837 |
Daguerre produces a clear permanent image on a copper plate coated with silver iodide which was developed by mercury vapour fumes. |
| 1839 |
Sir John Herschel invents a way to coat a glass plate with silver halides and creates the first glass plate negative makes prints on paper from the negative.
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| 1842 |
Sir John Herschel invents a process using iron salts which he names cyanotype because of its blue colour. He uses it to copy notes and documents thus creating the blueprint.
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| 1861 |
James Clerl Maxwell obtains the first three color-projection
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| 1871 |
Richard Leach announces his dry-plate process
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| 1888 |
The Kodak camera is marketed by George Eastman.
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| 1907 |
Lumiere Autochrome plated marketed.
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| 1925 |
Oskar Barnack markets the first Leica. |
| 1935 |
Mannes and Godowski invent Kodachrome.
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| 1950 |
Xerox Copy machine introduced.
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| 1981 |
Electronic still digital camera demonstrated by Sony
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| 1984 |
Apple computer introduces the Macintosh. |
| 1990 |
Tim Berners-Lee publishes the first "Web page" |
| 1990 |
Adobe Photoshop introduced.
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