Photography was derived from the Greek words photos ("light") and graphein ("to draw"). It was first used by scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839.
Next, Alhazn, an authority of optics in the Middle Ages who lived around 1000A.D. invented the first pinhole camera and was able to explain why images were upside down.
In 1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with a pinhole camera.
In 1829, Louis Daguerre, the inventor of the first practical process of photography, formed a partnership with Joseph Nicephore Niepce to improve the process Niepce had developed.
In 1839, Daguerre invented a process that created a lasting image, one that would not change if exposed to light and named it the daguerrotype. In 1839 he also sold the rights to daguerrotype to the French Government and sold copies of the process in a book. By 1850 there were over 70 daguerrotype studios in New York City alone.
Henry Fox Talbot, an English botanist and mathematician and a contemporary of Daguerre, invented the first negative from which multiple positive prints were made.
Several more advances were made, all the way up until the present day where we continue to use photography and a variety of different cameras, none of which would be possible if these few men discovered what they had.
-Mary Capaldo
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