List of Famous people with last name Niepce

Nicéphore Niépce

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

First Name Nicéphore

Born on March 7, 1765

Died on July 5, 1833 (aged 68)

Born in France, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, commonly known or referred to simply as Nicéphore Niépce, was a French inventor, usually credited as the inventor of photography and a pioneer in that field. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process: a print made from a photoengraved printing plate in 1825. In 1826 or 1827, he used a primitive camera to produce the oldest surviving photograph of a real-world scene. Among Niépce's other inventions was the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, which he conceived, created, and developed with his older brother Claude Niépce.

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