Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor and one of the earliest pioneers of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process: a print made from a... Wikipedia
Born: March 7, 1765, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
Died: July 5, 1833 (age 68 years), Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France
Known for: Photography; Pyréolophore internal combustion engine
Children: Isidore Niépce
Parents: Claude Barault and Claude Niépce
Siblings: Claude Niépce, Joseph Bernard Niépce, and Claudine-Antoinette Niépce
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Born on March 7, 1765, in good circumstances, Niepce, who was of a meditative and poetical temperament, entered the army in 1792, but after serving for two ...
It is the earliest photograph produced with the aid of the camera obscura known to survive today. The photograph was made by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833) ...