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 ...

Michael Mosley, Cassie Newland and Mark Miodownik describe the scientific achievements of Nicephore Niepce. He is thought ... Invention of motion pictures and celluloid. videoInvention of motion ...

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, ...

In 1826 Nicephore Niepce took the first photograph. In 1839 Louis Daguerre agreed to work with Niepce but he died shortly before they could start. At the same time William Henry Fox Talbot was ...