In 1826 or 1827, French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce made history when he took the world's first photograph from the ...

French inventor Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce is credited with creating the first permanent photograph in 1826. He used a camera obscura and a pewter plate coated with bitumen of Judea, an asphalt ...

There are many milestones on the road to modern science, but few equal the summer afternoon in 1826 when French inventor Joseph Nicephore Niepce (1765–1833) captured the first permanent image. Niepce, ...

Michael Mosley, Cassie Newland and Mark Miodownik describe the scientific achievements of Nicephore Niepce. He is thought of as the father of photography for he took the first photograph in 1826.