Nicéphore Niépce
French inventor and photographer (1765-1833) · France · Scientists · Died at 68
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Posthumous portrait of Nicéphore Niépce
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Dedication from Pictures From Life in Field and Fen, 1887 (2780975190).jpg?width=1200)
El mundo físico, 1882 "Nicéforo Niepce". (4052597912)
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Gedenktafel Münzstr 6 (Mitte) Ernst Litfaß
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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was born in France on 7 March 1765. He developed heliography, a technique that produced the world's oldest surviving products of a photographic process. With his older brother Claude, he conceived and built the Pyréolophore, one of the first internal combustion engines. But it was the camera work that outlasted him: sometime in the mid-1820s, he used a crude apparatus to make the oldest surviving photograph of a real-world scene, fixing onto a surface what had only ever been fleeting. He died on 5 July 1833, decades before the medium he pioneered would reshape how the world saw itself.
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