ABSTRACT
From the humble beginnings of an invention of a pinhole camera around 1000 AD to highly sophisticated data gathering from space, the history of imaging has been a captivating series of technological advances and their applications. The most ancient pinhole camera, also known as the camera obscura, could just project an image of a scene outside, upside-down, onto a viewing surface. It was only around 1816 that Nicéphore Niépce became the first man to capture a camera image on a paper medium coated with silver chloride, which darkened where it was exposed to light. Shortly after, George Eastman created an epoch by making commercial cameras that could be used by nonspecialists, and the first Kodak camera entered the market in 1888 preloaded with enough film for 100 exposures.
