Timeline of the History of Video TechnologyBy: Addison Rogers

1727 Johann H. Schulze finds that silver salts turn dark in

light.

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1780’s Carl Scheele finds out that silver salt color changes

could be made permanent through chemical use.

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1826 Nicephore Niepce produces a permanent image.

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1840’s Josef M. Petzval develops lenses for portrait

photography, which creates sharper images, more light, and less exposure time.

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1888 George Eastman introduces the Kodak camera, which

is lightweight, inexpensive, uses film wound on rollers.

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1889 Thomas Edison introduces the first motion picture

camera.

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1895 The first public showing of the Cinematograph is

given by Auguste and Louis Lumiere.

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1903 Edwin S. Porter shows the first narrative film, “The

Great Train Robbery.”

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1908 Several film producers set up the MPPC and agree to

not sell equipment to anyone who purchases motion picture from other companies.

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1917 Although the color was very unrealistic, colors were

limited, and expensive, Technicolor was introduced in 1917.

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1930’s-1940’s This was the time of motion picture’s peak.

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1948 The Polaroid camera is introduced by Edwin Land.

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1960 EG&G introduce deep water cameras for the US Navy.

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1968 A picture of the Earth is taken from the moon.

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1973 One-step instant photography is introduced by

Polaroid.

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1980 The first camcorder is invented.

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1985 Pixar comes out with its first digital image processor.

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1991 First still digital camera.

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2000 In 2000, the Panasonic DVC Pro HD was introduced.

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2011 The RED Epic is considered to be one of the best

cameras on the market.

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