The invention of the camera is usually attributed to Frenchman Louis Daguerre - who was first to announce his invention in 1839, and gave his name to the first popular form of photograph – the ...

Some cameras used to be the size of a whole room, requiring multiple people to operate. The first camera was invented in 1816 by Frenchman Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. In 1827, his prototype was used to ...

The 1975 prototype of the first digital camera, invented by Steven Sasson for Kodak(Courtesy Steven Sasson) If you told a teenager today that snapping a photograph used to require buying film in ...

Kodak invented the world's first portable, digital camera in the 1970s, but didn't release the technology for public sale until years later to avoid hits to the company's photographic-film business.

Dubai, 24 October 2007, worldwide: In 1978, a Kodak engineer invented a device he called a digital camera. Last night, Steven Sasson was inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame, for his ...