Timeline of photography technology

B.C. 400s - Aristophanes was aware of the fact that sunlight condensed by convex lens can ignite an object
B.C. 300s - Aristoteles recognized sunlight passed through pinhole produces an image
1100 - Initial movement for the research of camera obscura
1500s - Leonardo da Vinci wrote that he used camera obscura for the purpose of drawing pictures
1826 - Joseph Niépce takes the first permanent photograph
1891 - Thomas Edison patents the ``kinetoscopic camera
1973 - Fairchild Semiconductor releases the first large image forming CCD chip; 100 rows and 100 columns