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1998 Otto Bettman, archivist/writer, Started a huge photo archive, dies at 94
1994 Joop C Swart, publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at 69 1993 Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km 1993 Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer (World Press Photo), dies at 72 1981 Voyager 2 takes photo's of Saturn's moon Titan 1979 Voyager 2 takes 1st ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14) 1979 U.S. Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings 1969 Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars 1968 Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head 1959 Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space 1954 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy Massachusetts 1949 1st photo of genes taken at University of South California by Pease and Baker 1945 U.S. Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo and statue 1936 1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, New York 1936 1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah Fla 1934 1st x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, New York 1934 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars 1933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken 1925 Joop C Swart, Dutch publisher/founder, World Press Photo 1924 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC) 1924 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, U.S. - England 1922 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C. 1920 Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer, World Press Photo 1911 1st photo in U.S. taken from an airplane, San Diego 1905 General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident) 1898 Alfred Eisenstaedt, photo journalist 1896 1st X-ray photo in U.S. (Dr. Henry Smith, Davidson NC) 1868 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process 1860 1st aerial photo taken in U.S. (from a balloon), Boston 1858 Nadar takes 1st airborne photo, in a balloon 1857 Walter Woodbury and James Page open photo studio in Batavia, Djakarta 1857 Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse 1845 H L Fizeau and J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of Sun 1840 Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype) 1839 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science 1839 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) 1834 Johann C F Zollner, German astronoom, astro photo meter 1832 William Griggs, inventor, photo chromo lithography |
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