Digital Camera History?

Question

I need you help please!
I would like to know:
Who evented the first DIGITAL camera?
When was it invented?
Why?
How?
What it was called?
and anything else you can find.
THANK YOU!
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Answer 1

Texas Instruments designed a camera that used digital concepts in 1972, but the 1972 Texas Instrument camera was not digital, but analog.

From Wikipedia:

The first recorded attempt at building a digital camera was by Steven Sasson, an engineer at Eastman Kodak.[3] It used the then-new solid-state CCD image sensor chips developed by Fairchild Semiconductor in 1973.[4] The camera weighed 8 pounds (3.6 kg), recorded black and white images to a cassette tape, had a resolution of 0.01 megapixel (10,000 pixels), and took 23 seconds to capture its first image in December of 1975. The prototype camera was a technical exercise, not intended for production.

The first true digital camera that recorded images as a computerized file was likely the Fuji DS-1P of 1988, which recorded to a 16 MB internal memory card that used a battery to keep the data in memory. This camera was never marketed in the United States. The first commercially available digital camera was the 1991 Kodak DCS-100, the beginning of a long line of professional SLR cameras by Kodak that were based in part on film bodies, often Nikons. It used a 1.3 megapixel sensor and was priced at $13,000.

Answer 2

The first digital cameras were the early television cameras, first invented in the 1930s.

Scanners were in use, by police departments in the 1950s. Common desktop scanners are nothing more than big, flat digital cameras, laying on their backs.