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.

If you were alive in the 1980s, chances are good you owned a Kodak disc camera or knew someone who did. Eastman Kodak Co. sold 25 million of the ubiquitous pocket cameras, which were launched on the ...

Kodak engineer Steve Sasson invented the first portable, digital camera in 1975. Kodak received a patent for the device in 1978, but did not put it into production. What's False While Kodak did not ...