Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Daguerreotype photography was invented by the French photographic pioneer Louis Daguerre (1789-1851) and was made public in 1839.

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SAW a rapid improvement in photographic technology. In 1839, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre invented the daguerreotype photo process, which utilized a silver plate and mercury to ...

The 1975 prototype of the first digital camera, invented by Steven Sasson for Kodak(Courtesy Steven Sasson) If you told a teenager today that snapping a photograph used to require buying film in ...

Some cameras used to be the size of a whole room, requiring multiple people to operate. The first camera was invented in 1816 by Frenchman Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. In 1827, his prototype was used to ...