1. Did Edison Invent the Camera?

2. Or Did Someone Else Invent the Camera?

3. Let’s Take a Class Vote!
Raise your hand if you think Thomas Edison invented the camera!

4. Let’s Vote Again! Raise your hand if you think…
This guy invented the camera!

5. Let’s Vote Again! Raise your hand if you think…
It was…..
Joeseph Beale
2. Edwin S. Porter
3. Johannes Kepler 1 3 2

6. So Who Invented the Camera?
OR…
Thomas Alva Edison ( )

7. This is a camera, right?

8. What are these?????

9. Raise your hand if you think they are all cameras!

10. Raise your hand if you think they are NOT all cameras!

11. You will find out if you were right in just a few minutes…
These next pages are what you will be creating in PowerPoint.
Find pictures of “cameras.”
Find names of “camera” inventors.
Find dates of “camera” inventions.
Find out about Thomas Edison…..
Find out what these next pictures are all about….

12. Camera Obscura, 1544 Reinerus Gemma-Frisius Inventor

13. Portable 'Tent' Camera Obscura 1620
Portable 'Tent' Camera Obscura, Johannes Kepler ( ), 1620
Gernsheim, H., The Origins of Photography

14. Kinetoscope 1891 Invented by…. William Kennedy Laurie Dickson And
Charles A. Brown
Thomas Edison

15. Let’s Get to Work… You have 2 days with 40 minutes each day!
Create 7-10 cards.
Use your worksheets to find 10 cameras, 10 inventors and 10 dates.
Include a background color, buttons or transition effects.
Include the names of the “camera”, the inventor and the date of the invention.
Include Copyright address!

16. GOOD LUCK!