Dec 22, 2025 · However, the concept of photography—or at least the principle of projecting an image using light—was likely known in the ancient world. Perhaps the earliest written account …

Nov 14, 2025 · Louis Daguerre (born November 18, 1787, Cormeilles, near Paris, France—died July 10, 1851, Bry-sur-Marne) was a French painter and physicist who invented the first …

Dec 19, 2025 · However, the concept of photography—or at least the principle of projecting an image using light—was likely known in the ancient world. Perhaps the earliest written account …

Dec 22, 2025 · The earliest known photography studio anywhere opened in New York City in March 1840, when Alexander Wolcott opened a “Daguerrean Parlor” for tiny portraits, using a …

Dec 13, 2025 · Daguerreotype, first successful form of photography, named for Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre of France, who invented the technique in collaboration with Nicéphore …

Jan 1, 2026 · Frederick Scott Archer (born 1813, Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, Eng.—died May 2, 1857, London) was an English inventor of the first practical photographic process by …

However, the concept of photography—or at least the principle of projecting an image using light—was likely known in the ancient world. Perhaps the earliest written account of the …

Dec 22, 2025 · In 1833 the French-born photographer Hercules Florence worked with paper sensitized with silver salts to produce prints of drawings; he called this process “photography.”

Joseph Swan, English physicist and chemist who produced an early electric lightbulb and invented the dry photographic plate, an important improvement in photography and a step in …

Harold Edgerton was an American electrical engineer and photographer who was noted for creating high-speed photography techniques that he applied to scientific uses.