In 1975, an engineer named Steve Sasson created the first prototype of a hand-held digital camera. It weighed 8 pounds and was the size of a toaster, but it heralded the future of photography.

Steven Sasson went to work for Kodak in 1973, The New York Times reports. He was tasked with figuring out whether a "charged coupled device" (C.C.D.) had any practical application. This led him ...

Here's how the story unfolded: In the winter of 1975, Steven Sasson, a young engineer working in the Applied Research Lab at Kodak, tested out a new device for the first time. Now known as the ...

A delightful three-minute documentary sheds light on Steven Sasson's invention, which took digital pictures in 1975 and stored them on a cassette tape. Panasonic’s New Lumix Cameras Herald ...