
1859
Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton.
1861
Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer.
1865
Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright.
1871
Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately.
1880
Eastman Dry Plate Company founded.
1884
George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.
1888
Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.
1898
Reverend Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film