Eminent American inventor Thomas Edison said it best: ‘To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.’ Edison died in 1931 and the first digital camera didn’t appear for another 44 years.

Once upon a time, photography wasn't for everyone. Cameras were big, expensive, cumbersome machines, far from average-user-friendly. Then George Eastman came along, providing smaller yet still ...

Kodak invented the world's first portable, digital camera in the 1970s, but didn't release the technology for public sale until years later to avoid hits to the company's photographic-film business.