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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce 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…
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science · French inventor (1765–1833) · physicist · engineer · inventor · technician · also Nicéphore Niépce, Nikifor Niėps, Joseph Nicéphore Niepce, J.-N. Niepce, Joseph Niépce, Zhozef Nisefor Nʹeps
Born 7 March 1765 · Died 5 July 1833 · Q188342
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Le Monde.fr: A Chalon-sur-Saône, le Musée Nicéphore Niépce héberge la riche collection photo de la Fnac
L'Orient-Le Jour: Dans la maison de Nicéphore Niépce, père de la photographie
France 24: Dans la maison de Nicéphore Niépce, père de la photographie il y a 200 ans
Yahoo Actualités: Comment Nicéphore Niépce a-t-il inventé l'appareil photo ?
Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire: Entrez dans la maison de Nicéphore Niépce, celui qui voulait écrire avec le soleil [EN IMAGES]
L'Humanité: Le musée Nicéphore-Niépce en grand danger
actuphoto.com: La toute première photo et l'inventeur de la photographie, Nicéphore Niépce
Télérama: Ils ont fait la photo #1 : Nicéphore Niépce, l'homme qui a tout déclenché
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And sold to the Humanities Research Center (later renamed the Harry Ransom Center) in 1963
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In return for disclosing the technical details of Nicéphore's heliogravure process
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Managed to get the government of France to purchase his invention on behalf of the people of France
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Died 1833-07-05.
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After which Daguerre continued to experiment, eventually working out a process that only superficially resembled Niépce's
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Niépce entered into a partnership with Louis Daguerre, who was also seeking a means of creating permanent photographic images with a camera
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Niépce journeyed to England to visit his seriously ill elder brother Claude Niépce, who was now living in Kew, near London
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Are copies of a 17th-century engraving of a man with a horse and of what may be an etching or engraving of a woman with a spinning wheel
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Used it to create what is believed to have been the world's first permanent photographic image, a contact-exposed copy of an engraving of Pope Pius VII, but it was later destroyed when Niépce attempted to make prints
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Niépce became interested in the ancestor of the bicycle, a Laufmaschine invented by Karl von Drais in 1817
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The imperial government opened a competition for a hydraulic machine to replace the original Marly machine (located in Marly-le-Roi) that delivered water to the Palace of Versailles from the Seine river
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The brothers returned to the family's estates in Chalon to continue their scientific research, and where they were united with their mother, their sister and their younger brother Bernard
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Born 1765-03-07.
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