Niepce, Nicephore

The first known photograph, made in 1826. it shows the courtyard outside the room of Joseph-Nicephore Niepce. 

Joseph Nicephore Niepce—The inventor of photography and photoiithography... 

Figure 2.4 Portrait of Joseph Nicephore Niepce, the inventor of photolithography. (Published with permission from the Deutsches Museum, Munich.)...

Figure 2.5 The first photograph from nature Point de vue du Gras or View from the window at Le Gras), taken in 1826 by Joseph Nicephore Niepce of the courtyard in his country estate Le Gras in the viiiage of St. Loup-de-Varenness, near Chaion-sur-Saone in France. This image was recorded on a poiished pewter piate using heiiography. (Pubiished with permission from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin.)...

Through further optical and chemical processes that need not be described here, a realistic portrayal of the scene is eventually obtained. The process is termed photography ( light-writing ). A number of men contributed to the new technique, including the French physicist Joseph Nicephore Niepce (1765-1833), the French artist Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (1789-1851), and the English inventor William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-77). 

It is by no means clear that Becquetel was the first to discover radioactivity, contrary to the most accounts and, indeed, the one given here. See T. Rothman, Everything s Relative, WUey, Hoboken, NJ, 2003, pp. 46—52. Rothman makes a very good case for the prior discovery by Abel Niepce de Saint-Victor, who was the brother ofJoseph-Nicephore Niepce, who made the first ever photographic image. 

First photographic images (Joseph Nicephore Niepce) Niepce creates the first lasting photographic images. 

Daguerreotype (Jacques Daguerre) Improving on the discoveries of Joseph Nicephore Niepce, Daguerre develops the first practical photographic process, the Daguerreotype. 

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