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The First Photos Ever Taken

The first photograph ever taken 1826

This is a very very special photograph. You can also call it the ancestor of all the photographs in the world because it is the first photograph ever taken! Taken in 1826 by the Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce,the father of photography,this photograph is known as “View from the Window at Le Gras”.

The First Light Picture and Human Potrait Ever Taken 1839

Robert Cornelius, self-portrait, Oct. or Nov. 1839, approximate quarter plate daguerreotype which is a procedure invented in 1839 using silver on a copper plate.This self-portrait is the first photographic portrait image of a human ever produced.

First Photo of the Sun 1845
Taking advantage of a relatively new technology, the daguerreotype, French physicists Louis Fizeau and Leon Foucault made the first successful photographs of the sun on April 2, 1845. The original image, taken with an exposure of 1/60th of a second, was about 4.7 inches (12 centimeters) in diameter and captured several sunspots, visible in this reproduction.

The First Flight 1845

He had never used a camera before. And when he used it for the first time -he took an extremely important photograph for the entire mankind. Such was the luck of John T. Daniels who took the famous photograph of the First Flight of Wright brothers’ airplane on 17 December 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. This was the first and last photograph that John ever shot in his entire life.The first flight lasted just 12 seconds, airplane rose only 120 feet above the surface at a ground speed of merely 10.9 kilometers per hour and was witnessed only by five (lucky) people.

The World’s First Colour photograph 1861
Ever wonder what the first colour photographed looked like? Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell is responsible for creating this intriguing image of tartan ribbon in 1861. By photographing the ribbon three times through red, blue and yellow filters, Maxwell could combine the images into one full-colour composite. A milestone moment for the art and technological evolution of photography.

First High Speed Photograph 1878

High speed photography is the science of taking pictures of very fast phenomena. In 1948, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) defined high-speed photography as any set of photographs captured by a camera capable of 128 frames per second or greater, and of at least three consecutive frames. High speed photography can be considered to be the opposite of time-lapse photography.Photos taken by Edweard Muybridge, first published in 1887.

First Motion Picture 1888

 

The Photo of the first Photographic Studio 1893
A photographer appears to be photographing himself in a 19th-century photographic studio.

First X-Ray Image 1896

Discovery made by Wilhelm Roentgen.He made one of the most significant discoveries in science.He gave man the ability to look through skin and muscles without making a cut. In present, X-ray is indispensable part of any hospital establishment and a number of diseases are cured with assistance of these days.Roentgen presented the print of this picture in 1 January 1896.

First Digitally Scanned Photograph 1957
The first image scanner ever developed was a drum scanner. It was built in 1957 at the US National Bureau of Standards by a team led by Russell Kirsch. The first image ever scanned on this machine was a 5 cm square photograph of Kirsch’s then-three-month-old son, Walden. The black and white image had a resolution of 176 pixels on a side. Technically, this is the very first digital photograph – all these years later, digital cameras are only just beginning to have the full capabilities of film cameras.

First Photo of Earth From the Moon 1966
This photo reveals the first view of Earth from the moon, taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 on August 23, 1966. Shot from a distance of about 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers), this image shows half of Earth, from Istanbul to Cape Town and areas east, shrouded in night.

First Photo of Mars's Surface 1976

On July 20, 1976, spacecraft Viking 1 captured this, the first photograph ever taken of the surface of Mars. The photo shows one of three dust-covered footpads of the craft resting on Mars’s dry, rock-littered surface. Cameras strapped on either side of Viking 1’s lander helped scientists calculate distances on the surprisingly Earthlike surface of the red planet.

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