History Of A Panorama

A panorama is Greek for "all" and "Sight"  is any wide angle view, whether its a painting, drawing photograph or a three-dimensional model. The word "Panorama" was originally made by an Irish painter named Robert Barker to describe his panoramic paintings of Edinburgh, shown as a cylindrical surface veiwed from the inside that painting is in the London gallery named "The Panorama"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panorama

"One of the first recorded patents for a panoramic camera was submitted by Joseph Puchberger

in Austria in 1843 for a hand-cranked, 150° field of view, 8-inch length camera that exposed a relatively large Daguerreotype up to 24 inches long. A more successful and technically superior panoramic camera was assembled the next year by Fredich Von Martens in Germany in 1844." 

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panoramic_photography)

After that, some of the most famous productions were in the 1860's. A photographer called George Barnard in the American Civil War. His work was provided for overviews of fortification and terrain.

 Next, Around the 1913 mark, Panoramic cameras were invented and on sale. Cameras such as Cylindrograph and Wonder Panormic started producing better quality photos therefore better panoramas. The picture below is of Downtown, Philadelphia.

Nothing Else was done until the newer day of age. Nowadays we have several types of Panoramic cameras or methods. Such as short Rotation, Full Rotation, Fixed Lens, Segmented and catadioptric cameras. (which is explained a bit better in my essay)