Nicéphore Niépce
1765 – 1833 · aged 68
French inventor and photographer (1765-1833)
- Born
- 7 Mar 1765 · Chalon-sur-Saône
- Died
- 5 Jul 1833 · Saint-Loup-de-Varennes
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- 7 Mar 1765BornBorn in Chalon-sur-Saône
- 5 Jul 1833DiedDied in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes
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- 1765 – 1783American Revolution
- 1789 – 1799French Revolution
- 1812 – 1815War of 1812
- 1814 – 1815Congress of Vienna
Biography
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (French: [nisefɔʁ njɛps]; 7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833) was a French inventor and one of the pioneers of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving products of a photographic process. In the mid-1820s, he used a primitive camera to produce the oldest surviving photograph of a real-world scene. Among Niépce's other inventions was the Pyréolophore, one of the world's first internal combustion engines, which he conceived, created, and developed with his older brother Claude Niépce.
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