| Themes > Arts > Photography > Timeline of Photography > 1700 - 1794 |
1725-27 Johann Heinrich Schulze discovers and experiments with the darkening action of light on mixtures of chalk and silver nitrate. |
1760 Tiphaigne de la Roche predicts photography in Giphantie. |
1777 Carl Wilhelm Scheele proves ammonia stabilizes darkened silver salts. |
1786 Gilles-Louis Chrétien develops the Physionotrace for profile portraits. |
1794 Robert Barker opens the first Panorama, prototype of future movie houses. |
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