1. VIDEO TIMELINE By: Harmony Mothershed

2. WHAT IS DIGITAL VIDEO?  Digital video can be recognized and edited by a computer, which is also a digital device  http://www.techterms.com/definition/dv http://www.techterms.com/definition/dv

3. 5 TH -4 TH CENTURIES B.C.  Chinese and Greek philosophers describe the basic principles of optics and cameras.  http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm

4. 1794  First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Barker  http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm

5. 1826  Joseph Nicephore Niepce used a sliding wooden box to take photographs  http://photography.lovetoknow.com/First_Camera_Invented http://photography.lovetoknow.com/First_Camera_Invented

6. 1839  Sir. John F.W. Hershel discovered the method of recording images by the action of light, or related radiation on a sensitive material.  http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htm http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htm

7. 1867  The first video camera for movies and pictures were patented in the United States made by William Lincoln  http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictures.htm http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictures.htm

8. 1896  Edison showed his improved Vitascope projector and it was the first commercially, successful, projector in the U.S..  http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictures.htm http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictures.htm

9. 1920S  American engineer, Philo Taylor Farnsworth invented the Television camera, an image analysis, which reform the image captured into an electrical signal.  http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm

10. 1938  An Italian inventor introduced everybody to audio recordings  http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2006/06/article_0003.html http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2006/06/article_0003.html

11. 1950S  American companies started investigating the problems of different television programs and their magnetic tape that is used for sounds.  http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm

12. 1950S  The first Video Tape Recorder was invented  By Charles P. Gingsburg  http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm

13. MAY 1888  Kodak produces the first camera that only costs $25  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eastman/peopleevents/pande13.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eastman/peopleevents/pande13.html

14. APRIL 1956  Worlds first magnetic tape recorder  http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm

15. 1956  Technology was introduced to a video cassette  http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2006/06/article_0003.html http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2006/06/article_0003.html

16. 1964  Sony produced the first home video model  http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm

17. 1971  Charles Gingsburg was named “Father of video”  http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm

18. 1980  Still video or digital camera was the first demonstration  http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm

19. 1984  The International Telecommunications Union (ITU)created the first digital standard.  http://readwrite.com/2012/04/22/infographic_a_brief_history_of_digital_video http://readwrite.com/2012/04/22/infographic_a_brief_history_of_digital_video

20. 1984  Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera  http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm

21. 2003  Video sales has taken over VCR sales  http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm