| A | B |
|---|
| Greekword for light | photo |
| Greek word for writing | graph |
| Two processes that make photography possible | optical and chemical |
| Leonardo DaVinci | Credited for first earliest recorded use of the camera obscura |
| Gerolomo Cardano | He placed a glass lens in place of a metal pinhole in a camera |
| Giovanni Battista della Porta | Brought to court on charge of sorcery when visitors panic after seeing upside images from camera obscura |
| Daniel Barbaro | Added a wide angle lens and a mirror to camera obscura. This allowed artist to trace images that were right-side up |
| JohannSchultze | Experiments proved light turned silver nitrate dark. |
| Thomas Wedgewood | Process named Sun Prints, and could only be viewed by candle light |
| Sir "John" William Herschel | Coined terms positive, negative, snapshot and photography |
| Fixative or fixer | Made images permanent |
| Latent Image | invisible or dormant image formed on photosensitive material when exposed to light. |
| Joseph Niepce | Credited with first successful permanent photographic image |
| Heliograph | Greek for Sun Drawings |
| Louis Jaques Daguerre | Discovered mercury fumes developed images by accident |
| Daguerrotype Process | Used highly toxic chemicals |
| William Henry Fox Talbot | Called his process Calotype |
| Calotype | Greek for Beautiful Impression |
| Hippolyte Bayard | First to used techniques known as combination printing |
| Richard Maddox | Discovered the Dry-Plate/Gelatin Emulsion |
| George Eastman | Introduced the camera called a "brownie" which cost $1.00 |
| George Eastman credo | "You press the button, and we do the rest" |
| Thomas Edison | Used the roll film to make moving pictures |
| Louis and August Lumiere | Developed the Cinematographe (a projector) |
| Charles Bennette | Made the first gelatin dry plates for sale on the open market |
