Nicéphore Niépce (nonfiction)

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (French: [nisefɔʁ njɛps]; 7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833) was a French inventor who made pioneering contributions to photography.

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.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Light (nonfiction)
• Pyréolophore (nonfiction)

External links:

• Nicéphore Niépce @ Wikipedia