1. Video Timeline Tyler Kelley

2.  Chinese and Greek philosophers described the basic principles of optics and the camera. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/the- history-of-video-cameras

3.  Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/the- history-of-video-cameras

4.  First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Baker. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/the- history-of-video-cameras

5.  Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/the- history-of-video-cameras

6.  The first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under 30 minutes of light exposure. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/the- history-of-video-cameras

7.  The first pinhole camera (also called the camera oscura) was invented by Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham).  http://photodoto.com/camera-history- timeline/

8.  The Daguerreotype camera was announced by the French Acedemy of Sciences.  http://photodoto.com/camera-history- timeline/

9.  The first American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.  http://photodoto.com/camera-history- timeline/

10.  The paranormic camera patened by Thomas Sutton.  http://photodoto.com/camera-history- timeline/

11.  Oliver wenderll holmes invents stereoscope viewer. http://photodoto.com/camera-history- timeline/

12. 1794  First panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Baker http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventi ons/a/Photography.htm

13. 1814  Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventi ons/a/Photography.htm

14. 1837  Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions /a/Photography.htm

15. 1840  First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera. http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventi ons/a/Photography.htm

16. 1843  First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia. http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventi ons/a/Photography.htm

17.  Eugene F. Lally of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory began working on a way to use a mosaic photo sensor to capture digital images. http://www.practicalphotographytips.com/hist ory-of-digital-photography.html#axzz3FkStS597

18.  1970: George Smith and Willard Boyle of Bell Laboratories built the first solid-state video camera http://www.practicalphotographytips.com/hist ory-of-digital-photography.html#axzz3FkStS597

19.  Kodak put out their Easy Share digital camera, which made it easy to snap pictures and download them to the computer http://www.softschools.com/timelines/cam era_timeline/32/

20.  The camera phone was first used in Japan, but quickly spread around the world. http://www.softschools.com/timelines/cam era_timeline/32/

21.  Kodak put out cameras that didn't have to be connected to a computer in order to download and share the pictures. http://www.softschools.com/timelines/camera_ timeline/32/