THE camera was invented over thousands of years by lots of people building on each other’s work. These days cameras are tiny devices integral to a huge number of portable devices. But early cameras ...

A future in which people are constantly monitored was featured in George Orwells 1939 dystopian fiction 1984. And although he may have been off on the date, he was definitely onto something with ...

In 1975, a young engineer in the company that made Kodak film took the first picture on a handheld digital camera. Photography would never be the same again. When Steve Sasson started working at ...

For years, claims have spread on social media platforms that a photo genuinely showed the world’s first camera. When we searched “Chicago and Alton railroad camera,” we found the photo was real. It ...

1. The word “camera” originally meant a judicial or legislative chamber. 2. Its modern use came from “camera obscura” a darkened room or box used as a pinhole camera. Article continues below ...

The world's oldest streaming camera has finally been turned off after 25 years - that's a quarter of a century! The Fogcam was first used in 1994 to watch how the weather changed at the San Francisco ...

THE camera was invented over thousands of years by lots of people building on each other’s work. These days cameras are tiny devices integral to a huge number of portable devices. But early cameras ...