Timeline of photography technology

1826 - Nicéphore Nièpce takes the first permanent photograph
1835 - William Fox Talbot produces early permanent photographs through his own process.
1839 - Jacques Daguerre patents the the Daguerreotype
1840 - William Fox Talbot invented the positive / negative process of photography used in all modern photography. He refers to this as photogenic drawing.
1878 - Eadweard Muybridge made high-speed time lapse photographic demonstration of a horse airborne during the gallop using a trip-wire system
1887 - Celluloid film introduced
1888 - Kodak n°1 box camera is mass marketed; first easy-to-use camera.
1891 - Thomas Edison patents the "kinetoscopic camera" (motion pictures)
1895 - Auguste and Louis Lumiere - Invented the cinématographe
1902 - Arthur Korn devises practical phototelegraphy technology (reduction of photographic images to data bits which can transmitted by wire to other locations); Wire-Photos in wide use in Europe by 1910, and transmitted intercontinentally by 1922.
1907 - The Autochrome Lumière is the first color photography process marketed.
1925 - The Leica introduces the 35mm format in still photography.
1973 - Fairchild Semiconductor releases the first large image forming CCD chip; 100 rows and 100 columns