People Said Digital Camera Would Never Happen

Steve Sasson and the Birth of the Digital Camera

According to it's inventor,when they spoke about the newly created first digital camera, "many times people talked about all the reasons why it would never happen". See

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Inventors of the CCD (Charge Coupled Device Used in Cameras and Video)...."A lot of people pooh poohed Boyle and Smith's idea saying it would never work. Remember at this point, it was only a theory. A bunch of equations and diagrams on a blackboard."

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