Was this the first camera ever built?

No, the 1900 photo above does not show the first camera ever built, which was supposedly photographed by the second camera ever built. Not even close.

This may seem like a silly one to debunk, since anyone with even a basic knowledge of photography history knows that photo technology predates 1900. But with over 1,600 retweets on a single Twitter account alone, there are obviously plenty of people who want to believe it.

The camera was indeed the largest camera ever built up until that time. But it was far from the first.