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Ohio Becomes a State
Ohio officially becomes a state!! -
First French Empire
During the early 1800s, France enters it's first period of the Napoleon empire, a historic figure in the world at this period in time... -
Bourbon Restoration
This provactive name was the period of French history following the first fall of Napoleon in 1814 and his final defeat in the Hundred Days in 1815, until the July Revolution of 1830. These brothers of the executed Louis XVI came to power and reigned in highly conservative fashion. -
The First Photograph
This image was taken by by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. The photograph shows the view from an upstairs window at Niépce's residence, in Le Gras, in the Burgundy region of France. -
Celluloid Film
This process was originally created by Henry Fox Talbot, this method involved spreading gelatin on paper -
First Photograph of a Human
This photograph of Boulevard du Temple in Paris was made in 1838 by Louis Daguerre. The same gentlemen that invented the daguerreotype process of photography. -
Slavery Abolished in British Empire
The British Parliament that abolished slavery in most British colonies, freeing more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number in Canada as well. -
First Self Portrait
Robert Cornelius set up a camera and took the world’s first self-portrait in the back of a business on Chestnut Street in Center City, Philadelphia. Cornelius sat in front of the lens for a little over a minute, before leaving the seat and covering the lens. The now iconic photograph was captured 170+ years ago in 1839. -
Wedgewood's Nature Photographs
Thomas Wedgwood is the first person known to have thought of creating permanent pictures by capturing camera images on material coated with a light-sensitive chemical. His practical experiments yielded only shadow image photograms that were not light-fast, but his conceptual breakthrough and partial success have led some historians to call him "the first photographer", -
The First Hoax Photograph
This image was taken by Hippolyte Bayard and it is Daguerreotype photography. -
The Calotype
The Calotype, also reffered talbotype, early photographic technique invented by William Henry Fox Talbot of Great Britain in the 1830s. In this technique, a sheet of paper coated with silver chloride was exposed to light in a camera obscura; those areas hit by light became dark in tone, yielding a negative image. -
First Presidential Photgraph
John Quincy Adams was the first president to have his photograph taken. The daguerreotype was shot in 1843 which was far after Adams actual presidency for the USA -
Telegraph
In 1844, Samuel Morse created the telegraph. The telegraph was the first communication invention that moved our society away from "Pony Mail." Samuel Morse also created "Morse Code," or the system of communication through the telegraph system. -
The First Sun Photograph
The first photograph of the earth's sun was taken by French Physicists Louis Fizeau and Leon Foucault on April 2nd, 1845. The picture was captured using the Daguerreotype process and resulted after a 1/60 of a second. Sunspots can be seen if you look closely! -
Collodion Photography
Created by Fredrick Scott Archer, this was a process that is now commonly referred to as wet photography -
First Ariel Photograph
This picture was taken from a hot air balloon by James Wallace Black! -
The First Color Photograph
This picture was taken by James Clerk Maxwell. The inventor of the SLR, Thomas Sutton, was the man who pressed the shutter button, but Maxwell is credited with the scientific process that made it possible. For those having trouble identifying the image, it is a three-color bow. The picture has a resolution of 176×176. -
American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States from 1861 to 1865, fought between the northern United States and the southern United States. The civil war began primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of African Americans. -
Slavery Abolished
On January 31, 1865 president Abraham Lincoln made the decision to end slavery -
French Third Republic
The French Third Republic was the system of government adopted in France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940 after France's defeat by Nazi Germany in World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government in France. -
Telephone
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone. The invention changed, and shaped, modern communication as we know it. -
Colored Landscape Photograph
The first ever photograph in the world in color was taken in 1877 by famous photographer, Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron, The shot depicts southern France and is appropriately titled “Landscape of Southern France”. -
Lightning Photograph
This was the first image ever to capture the natural phenomena known as lightning. It was taken by a man named William Jennings. -
Tornado Photograph
This image was the first ever to capture a tornado. Depending on what part of the country you lived in, many people had no idea what a tornado even was. -
KODAK
George Eastman of Rochester, New York was the first to imagine the use of a roll film, build a "simple, easy-to-use camera, and market it as a fun use product." In the history of photography, Eastman was a master of marketing photography to the general public. “You push the button, we do the rest.” -
The Brownie
The first ever mass marketed camera goes on sale!
