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French inventor and photographer (1765–1833)

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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (French:[nisefɔʁnjɛps]; 7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833)^[1] was a French inventor and one of the earliest pioneers of photography.^[2] Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving products of a photographic process.^[3] In the mid-1820s, he used a primitive camera to produce the oldest surviving photograph of a real-world scene.

Among Niépce's other inventions was the Pyréolophore, one of the world's first internal combustion engines, which he conceived, created, and developed with his older brother Claude Niépce.^[4]

Biography

Early life

Niépce was born in Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire, where his father was a wealthy lawyer.

His older brother Claude (1763–1828) was also his collaborator in research and invention,