Louis Lumiere invents the first true “motion picture” camera.
1895
Edward Muybridge works with Thomas Edison to invent the first movie camera and an early viewing device called a kinetoscope.
1892
Richard Leach Maddox invents a heat-ripened gelatin emulsion, paving the way for "instantaneous" photo exposures using dry plates.
1878
The first flipbook is patented by John Barnes Linnett under the name kineograph (Latin for "moving picture").
1868
Louis Daguerre creates the first practical photographic process, which he names the daguerreotype.
1839
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