stereoscopic camera.

 

1856-University of London adds photography to curriculum.

 

1856-Francis Frith (English) photographs on the Nile.

 

1856-Hamilton L. Smith of Ohio patented a new photographic method that came to be known as tintype.

 

1857-Queen Victoria purchases “fine art” photographic print by Oscar Gustave Rejlander.

 

1857-Renjyo Shimooka brings photography to Japan.

 

1858-Paris photographed from the air by Nadar (French).

 

1858-Henry Peach Robinson (English)  makes composite print “FADING AWAY” using masks

and multiple negatives.

 

1859-C L Weed (USA) makes photographs in Yosemite Vally.

 

1859-Thomas Sutton (English)  designs wide-angle lens.

 

1860-Thomas Sutton (English) designs single lens reflex camera.

 

1860-Sabattier shows prints made by reversal

A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY

OF PHOTOGRAPHY

(solarization).

 

1861-Samuel Bourne photographs in the Himalayas and India.

 

1861-Matthew B. Brady (USA) sponsors photo documentation of American Civil War. First photographs seen around the world.

 

1861-James Clerk Maxwell (English) demonstrates additive color principle of light.

 

1862-John Thomson (Scott) photographs in the Orient.

 

1862-”coffee table book” “RUINED ABBEYS AND CASTLES OF GREAT BRITAIN” by William and Mary Howitt (English) published.

 

1862-William England (English) designs focal plane shutter.

 

1862-Napoleon Sarnoy (English) photographs surgical operation as a learning aid for Dr. Sampson Gamgee.

 

1863-Julius Kruger (German) offers correspondence course in photography.

 

1864-Joseph Wilson Swan (English) produces carbon prints.

 

1865-William Davey (English) prints and publishes “sport cards” of cricket players.

 

1865-Alexander Gardner (USA) photographs Abraham     Lincoln and damages plate during processing. A single print is made to inspect the damage and plate is destroyed.  Ten  days later Abraham Lincoln is Assassinated.

 

1865-Protection for photographs added to US copyright law.

 

1866-John Dallmeyer designs Rapid Rectilinear lens with F/8 aperture.

 

1866-Timothy O’Sullivan (USA) hired as expedition photographer for US Geological survey of the 40th Parallel.

 

1866-Charles Waldack (USA) uses magnesium powder in front of large reflectors to photograph Mammoth Cave.

 

1868-Louis Ducos du Hauron (French) describes subtractive color process.

 

1869-Louis Ducos du Hauron (French) publishes photographs in color.