AUSTIN, TEXAS â Michael Conway, president of global channel development for the Starbucks Coffee Co., summed up his job succinctly when he said, âWhile most people think the majority of coffee purchasing and consumption occurs in cafes, actually the opposite is true.
Who invented the digital camera? This device was first created by Eastman Kodak engineer Steven Sasson in 1975. The camera used a solid state CCD image sensor chips manufactured by Fairchild Semiconductor. The device weighed 3.6 kilograms and it took above 20 seconds to capture an image.
Artwork from US Patent 4,131,919: Electronic still camera by Gareth A. Lloyd, Steven J. Sasson courtesy of US Patent & Trademark Office. 1  4th century BCE: Chinese invented the camera obscura (a darkened room with a hole in the drapes that projects an image of the outside world onto a distant wall).