Stuart Soffer Gave me his View-Master

1822 –first permanent photographs – heliography, color as early as 1842

1840s-1860s – stereoscopic photographs

Phonograph – 1877 – Edison

Moving pictures –  1890s (but also previous inventions, and this from 1878)

1904 – player piano technology that could record and replay famous pianists

the Welte-Mignon, was launched in 1904.

1927  – talking and singing movies

https://vimeo.com/80603611

go to 40:00

Kodachrome 1930s

1939 – View master

1948 – polaroid camera

2001 bankruptcy

1975 – digital camera

1992 – first photo on the web

Kodak  – went bankrupt in 2012

What’s in the future? Will it make all current photography obsolete?