A History of Photography
Robert Leggat wrote a pretty detailed history of photography, which includes the beginnings with Sir John Herschel right until the 1920s, with a index of significant people in processes during this period.
Sure, it's just photography - a chemical process - but it's the start of digital photography as well.

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