In September 2018 I started writing a short series of articles. They look a the history of photography by looking at items or inventors behind the technology.  Thought it was best we list the various posts somewhere. 

The posts are not sequential and I Jump from digital cameras back to the 1800’s or earlier and back from post to post. The idea is based on Neil MacGregor the director of the British Museum’s seminal History of the world in a 100 objects ( I can’t guarantee that number but..)

No	Item	Date	Location
1	First Selfie	1839	US Library of congress
2	Camera Obscura	1700’s	Dumfries Museum, UK
3	Portrait of Thomas Wedgewood  – pioneeer of photograms	c.1800	In book retrievable on archive.org
4	Fujica 35 Automagic – early coupled metered camera	1958	Available to purchase on all good online auction sites
5	First photo sent by Mobile phone	1997	Image in public domain on internet
6	Painting of John Dolland. Patent holder of the Achromatic lens	Late 1700’s	Museum of Greenwich (not currently on display but available online)
7	Edison Kinetoscope	1893	Various Museums around world (see article for some)
8	Cyclops Camera – First consumer digital camera	1975	Various museum and auction sites
9	Photograph of Dr Maddox -whose work would lead to Dry gelatin plates	~1871	Book at the University Library of Heidelberg
10	Drawing of the First Stereoscope	Mid 1800’s	Book Illustration. Stereoscope in King’s College London and other examples in other Museums.
11	Carte De Visite of Sir John Herschel	1860’s	Various Museum collections
12	Fishing reel made with Parkesine the precursor of celluloid	1860’s	Science Museums Group (UK)
13	Keystone Dry Plate & Film Works. The birthplace of commercial film production	1880’s	Image On Google Street View 2020. Building no longer standing as of 2021
14	Polaroid of the first computer generated image on a US defence computer	1959	Polaroid ? privately owned? Image widely found on internet. Computer  system can be visited at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
15	Wet Collodion of Prince Arthur, the first photograph to be printed in a news periodical	1869	Original plate in the McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal, Canada (item no I-41496). The museum shares this reversed copy online