World's First Photograph - Year 1826 - few more interesting photos

[austinite]

World's First Photograph

Centuries of advances in chemistry and optics, including the invention of the camera obscura, set the stage for the world’s first photograph. In 1826, French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, took that photograph, titled View from the Window at Le Gras, at his family’s country home. Niépce produced his photo—a view of a courtyard and outbuildings seen from the house’s upstairs window—by exposing a bitumen-coated plate in a camera obscura for several hours on his windowsill.

source: World's First Photograph






First Ever Photograph of a Human Being

This photograph of Boulevard du Temple in Paris was made in 1838 by Louis Daguerre, the brilliant guy that invented the daguerreotype process of photography. Aside from its distinction of being a super early photograph, it’s also the first photograph to ever include a human being. Because the image required an exposure time of over ten minutes, all the people, carriages, and other moving things disappear from the scene. However, in the bottom left hand corner is a man who just so happened to stay somewhat still during the shot — he was having his shoes shined.

source: First Ever Photograph of a Human Being




It’s interesting how sheer luck earned the guy a place in the history of photography. Too bad we’ll probably never know his identity.




Robert Cornelius, first self-portrait, taken at age 29 in 1839





1854 - Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London

[austinite]

The First Video Ever Taken in 1888

[austinite]

Incredible Footage from 1906 in San Francisco

[austinite]

First Ever Video Footage (1893) of New York Fire Brigade

[lovbyts]

What's really amazing is how there is so much going on, cars, horses, pedestrians, trains/trolleys all mixed together and no one is getting run down. Where are the helmets? Safety rails? Barriers, side walks, traffic lights? LOL

See, this is a good example of good ole common sense and being responsible for your own actions. Think anyone would or could sew if something did happen? Not

[austinite]

What's really amazing is how there is so much going on, cars, horses, pedestrians, trains/trolleys all mixed together and no one is getting run down. Where are the helmets? Safety rails? Barriers, side walks, traffic lights? LOL

See, this is a good example of good ole common sense and being responsible for your own actions. Think anyone would or could sew if something did happen? Not

Agree. This is so interesting to me. I'd live to live a month or so during those times.

[lovbyts]

Agree. This is so interesting to me. I'd live to live a month or so during those times.

ha, Ive though about the same thing. Yeah that would be cool to experience it first hand.

[austinite]

Crazy thing though, everyone in that 1893 video is dead, most likely that san fran video, too.

[lovbyts]

Crazy thing though, everyone in that 1893 video is dead, most likely that san fran video, too.

Never know. Look close enough you might recognize someone. Ive seen situations like that. Old movies or old photographs. Vampires live a LONG time.... lol
OK didnt mean to get OT.

[Java Man]

Really cool finds. I always thought I was born in the wrong century. Lovbytes, youre so right about the protections lacking back then. People made it though! Shows just how restrictive governments have become. I swear every time I leave my house I'm worried about coming home with some kind of fine.

[lovbyts]

Really cool finds. I always thought I was born in the wrong century. Lovbytes, youre so right about the protections lacking back then. People made it though! Shows just how restrictive governments have become. I swear every time I leave my house I'm worried about coming home with some kind of fine.

I couldnt agree more. I do the same thing, worry about fines.

I'm glad I grew up in the day where we rode bikes without helmets, walked around the neighborhood with a BB gun rifle, has a sling shot in my back pocket, main rule was to be home before sunset and when mom wanted you home for dinner she just stood on the front porch and yelled your name saying it's time for dinner. Yeah really and no it wasnt a farm. lol

[austinite]

Really cool finds. I always thought I was born in the wrong century. Lovbytes, youre so right about the protections lacking back then. People made it though! Shows just how restrictive governments have become. I swear every time I leave my house I'm worried about coming home with some kind of fine.

So true.

[lovbyts]

OMG I LOVE that video... I'm saving that one it's great. Ive seen a few like it but that's good.

[Java Man]

I couldnt agree more. I do the same thing, worry about fines.

I'm glad I grew up in the day where we rode bikes without helmets, walked around the neighborhood with a BB gun rifle, has a sling shot in my back pocket, main rule was to be home before sunset and when mom wanted you home for dinner she just stood on the front porch and yelled your name saying it's time for dinner. Yeah really and no it wasnt a farm. lol

Lol. I know. My childhood was the same. If a kid did that today there would be a SWAT team and antiterrorism task force on scene in no time. Then his parents would spend their life savings and the next 12 years of their lives trying to get him out of Guantanamo.

[lovbyts]

Lol. I know. My childhood was the same. If a kid did that today there would be a SWAT team and antiterrorism task force on scene in no time. Then his parents would spend their life savings and the next 12 years of their lives trying to get him out of Guantanamo.

Yeah, can you imagine? I know some of the things I did I have no doubt I would have been arrested for being a terrorist. Llast 2 days of high school I set off 2 different 6" fire crackers, 1/4 stick of dynamite. On in the football field bleachers using a cigarette as a timer and another in the parking lot lawn as we were leaving. I was even seen by the school security but nothing happened.

Now days they would claim I was trying to blow the place up. It was stupid though.

[marcus300]

Bloody amazing,

[austinite]

Bloody amazing,

Indeed!

[kelkel]

Very cool.

[lstbred]

Very cool!