With a sultry gaze and disheveled hair, the self-portrait of 19th-century Philadelphian photographer Robert Cornelius is said ...
French inventor Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce is credited with creating the first permanent photograph in 1826. He used a camera obscura and a pewter plate coated with bitumen of Judea, an asphalt ...
when it successfully transmitted the first photo by wire to its sister publication, The New York World. This is how the Post-Dispatch reported the news 100 years ago. NEW YORK. Nov. 15.
Historic England Archive/USAAF P A photograph captures the ... The USAAF's first heavy bomber mission of the Second World War was flown from here on 17 August 1942 Historic England Archive/USAAF ...