He Invented the Digital Camera in 1975... His Company Hid It

He Invented the Digital Camera... and His Company Buried It In 1975, a young engineer invented the digital camera. And his own company buried it. His name was Steve Sasson. He worked at Kodak, the biggest film company in the world. His boss gave him a small task: see if a new light sensor could be used for anything. He built a camera the size of a toaster. It weighed about eight pounds and recorded onto a cassette tape. One photo took twenty-three seconds to save. Black and white, just ten thousand pixels. He showed it to the executives. They saw only one thing: no film. And film was how they made their money. The camera was put away, and Kodak kept selling film for decades. Meanwhile, the rest of the world went digital. Then came phones with cameras inside. In 2012, the film giant filed for bankruptcy. Years later, Sasson received a National Medal of Technology for his invention. All because in 1975, a young engineer invented the digital camera. And his own company buried it.