I personally assumed that he had taken many of the older
photos but, as we get more facts about Horace Farquhar, having been born in
1875, we speculate that he might have been in photography business when he was
around 20-21 years of age, when he began that career.
So if so, he would have
started in 1896, and he's mother Elizabeth had already died in 1893, which is
the reason there are no photos of her at a later age. The following is a history of the events in
the photo world that Horace might have been a part of in his lifetime.
1898 – Kodak introduces the Folding Pocket Kodak.
1900 – Kodak introduces their first Brownie, a very
inexpensive user-reloadable point-and-shoot box camera.
1901 – Kodak introduces the 120 film format.
1902 – Arthur Korn devises practical telephotography
technology (reduction of photographic images to signals that can be transmitted
by wire to other locations); Wire-Photos in wide use in Europe by 1910, and
transmitted intercontinentally by 1922.
1907 – The Autochrome plate is introduced and becomes the
first commercially successful color photography product.
1908 – Kinemacolor, a two-color process that is the first
commercial "natural color" system for movies, is introduced.
1909 – Kodak announces a 35 mm "safety" motion
picture film on an acetate base as an alternative to the highly flammable
nitrate base.[4] The motion picture industry discontinues its use after 1911
due to technical imperfections.
1912 – Vest Pocket Kodak using 127 film.
1912 – Thomas Edison introduces a short-lived 22 mm home
motion picture format using acetate "safety" film manufactured by
Kodak.[4]
1913 – Kodak makes 35 mm panchromatic motion picture film
available on a bulk special order basis.
1914 – Kodak introduces the Autographic film system.
1914 – The World, the Flesh and the Devil, the first
dramatic feature film in color (Kinemacolor), is released.
1922 – Kodak makes 35 mm panchromatic motion picture film
available as a regular stock.[4]
1923 – The 16 mm amateur motion picture format is introduced
by Kodak. Their Cine-Kodak camera uses reversal film and all 16 mm is on an
acetate (safety) base.[4]
1923 – Harold Edgerton invents the xenon flash lamp for
strobe photography.
1925 – The Leica introduces the 35 mm format to still
photography.
1926 – Kodak introduces its 35 mm Motion Picture Duplicating
Film for duplicate negatives. Previously, motion picture studios used a second
camera alongside the primary camera to create a duplicate negative.
1932 – The first full-color cartoon, Flowers and Trees, is
made in Technicolor by Disney.
1932 – First 8 mm amateur motion picture film, cameras, and
projectors are introduced by Kodak.[4]
1934 – The 135 film cartridge is introduced, making 35 mm
easy to use for still photography.
1935 – Becky Sharp, the first feature film made in the
full-color "three-strip" version of Technicolor, is released.
1935 – Introduction of Kodachrome multi-layered color
reversal film (16 mm only; 8 mm and 35 mm follow in 1936, sheet film in
1938).[4]
1936 – Introduction by IHAGEE of the Ihagee Kine Exakta 1,
the first 35 mm SLR (Single Lens Reflex) camera.
1936 – Agfacolor Neu (English: New Agfacolor) color reversal
film for home movies and slides.
1939 – Agfacolor negative and positive 35 mm color film
stock for professional motion picture use (not for making paper prints).
1939 – The View-Master 3-D viewer and its "reels"
of seven small stereoscopic image pairs on Kodachrome film are introduced.
1942 – Kodacolor, the first color film that yields negatives
for making chromogenic color prints on paper. Roll films for snapshot cameras
only, 35 mm not available until 1958.
1947 – Dennis Gabor invents holography.
1947 – Harold Edgerton develops the Rapatronic camera for
the U.S. government.
1948 – The Hasselblad camera is introduced.
1948 – Edwin H. Land introduces the first Polaroid instant
camera.
1949 – The Contax S camera is introduced, the first 35 mm
SLR camera with a pentaprism eye-level viewfinder.
1952 – Bwana Devil, a low-budget polarized 3-D film,
premieres in late November and starts a brief 3-D craze that begins in earnest
in 1953 and fades away during 1954.
1954 – Leica M Introduced
1957 – First digital computer acquisition of a scanned
photograph, by Russell Kirsch at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards (now the
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