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Nicéphore Niépce

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The First Photographer: The Photographs of Nicéphore Niépce

 

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First Photograph by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

 

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How to Pronounce Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor, now usually credited as the inventor of photography and a pioneer in that field. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process: a print made from a photoengraved printing plate in 1825. In 1826 or 1827, he used a primitive camera to produce the oldest surviving photograph of a real-world scene. Among Niépce's other inventions was the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, which he conceived, created, and developed with his older brother Claude.
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