Claude Niépce moved to London and virtually bankrupted the brothers attempting to create business opportunities with the engine. Niépce developed theories of hydrostatic pressure and used them ...

Joseph Niépce invented the world’s first camera in 1816 and successfully captured a photograph in 1827. The first image took eight hours to produce.

Photography pioneer Joseph Niepce The two experimented with other substances, including silver. Niépce died in 1833 and Daguerre continued the research. By 1838, he had perfected the ...

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce pioneered the "heliograph" technique, which literally means drawing with sun. To mark what would have been his 250th birthday, the three images will go on show at the ...

A CENTURY ago, on July 5, 1833, at the age of sixty-eight years, Joseph Nicéphore Niepce, the pioneer of photography, died near his birthplace, Chelon-sur-Sáne. Born on March 7, 1765, in good ...

This photo, simply titled, "View from the Window at Le Gras," is said to be the world's earliest surviving photograph. And it was almost lost forever.

Only 16 heliographic plates by Niépce are known to be still in existence with the three going on display having been presented to the Royal Photographic Society in 1924 by the son of eminent ...

Niepce’s first photograph was lost for almost half a century. It was rediscovered in 1952 by art collector Helmut Gernshiem in the attic of a London home, and brought to the U.S. in 1963 when it ...

In a “Life of Nicephore Niepce,” 1 recently published by Victor Fouqué, appear letters which leave little doubt that in May, 1816 Niepce had accomplished the feat of fixing shadows in the ...

0 0 This article was originally published with the title “Nicephore Niepce's House” in SA Supplements Vol. 31 No. 807supp (June 1891), p. 12894 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican06201891-12894bsupp ...