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Who invented the camera?


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Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham), a great authority on optics in Middle Ages who lived around 1000AD, invented the first pinhole camera.

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Between the 11th and 16th centuries, man had "the camera obscura." This enabled him to show on paper an image which could be MORE?

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Alhazen invented a pinhole camera around 1000AD. The 1st photograph was taken in 1827. Daguerre improved this process in 1829.

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Pinhole cameras are 1000 yrs old, invented by Alhazen Ibn Al-Haytham. Louis Daguerre made the modern camera in 1839: daguerrotype.

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Photography was not invented by any single person.In 1888, a box camera was put on the market, developed by the Eastman MORE?

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The word was first used by the scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839.

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Alhazen, a great authority on optics in the Middle Ages who lived around 1000AD, invented the first pinhole camera. ChaCha!

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Edwin Herbert Land was the genius who invented the Polaroid lens. ChaCha!

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George Eastman was the inventor of the camera. Thanks for using ChaCha!

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