Categorized In: History , Consumer Electronics , Historic Figures
Source: History of Photography and the Camera | inventors.about.com
5 days ago, 08:10pm
Pinhole cameras are 1000 yrs old, invented by Alhazen Ibn Al-Haytham. Louis Daguerre made the modern camera in 1839: daguerrotype.
Photography was not invented by any single person.In 1888, a box camera was put on the market, developed by the Eastman MORE?
The word was first used by the scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839.
Alhazen, a great authority on optics in the Middle Ages who lived around 1000AD, invented the first pinhole camera. ChaCha!
