Dates Flashcards
Instead of using the darkroom, they used box with a lens and placed a mirror( camera lucida).
16th century
Camera obscura was built with convex lens
17th century
Thomas Wedgwood and Humphey Davy produced photograms.
1800
Birth year of modern photography and become a public knowledge.
1839
French police used daguerreotype for personal identification of criminals
1841
The earliest evidence of photographic documentation of prison inmates (mugshots) in Belgium and Denmark
1843-1844
Photography was already well developed and used in art concerned with landscape(blueprint)
1850
In the US, one of the earliest applied forensic science was in photography. It was used to demonstrate evidence in a California case
1859
The first recorded use of accident photography which was admitted as evidence regarding injured horse and buggy.
1875
Full corrected lens were introduced.
1890
The first mass marketed camera( the brownie)
1900
Will West case of Leavenworth highlight the value of fingerprints.
1903
A plate was placed on the market that reproduce all the colors in equivalent shades of gray. ( Example is speed detector)
1906
In Denver Colorado, all the intoxicated persons were photographed at the Police Station.
1907
Use of photographic speed recorders to detect speeding motorists.
1910