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Q. While watching a biography of George Eastman, inventor of the
Kodak camera, I heard mention of French inventor Joseph Nicephore
Niepce. What was his contribution to photography?
A.T., Ashland
A. Niepce (1765-1833) took the first picture in the history of
photography. In 1814 he tried to develop a photoengraving process to
transfer a sketch to a lithographic plate. That failed, but in 1816
he made the first negative on paper that was sensitized with silver
chloride in a c...
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