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Joseph Niépce, Inventor of Photography > 
When the craze for the newly invented art of lithography swept France in 1813, it naturally attracted Joseph's attention. Unable to draw well, he placed engravings, made transparent, on stones coated with light-sensitive varnish of his own composition. Thus lithography led to what Niépce later termed Heliography, and subsequently to the first permanent photography from nature, produced on pewter around 1826.
In September 1827, Joseph traveled to Kew near London to visit his brother Claude, who lay dangerously ill. While there, he was introduced to the noted botanist, Francis Bauer, FRS, who examined the specimens Niépce had brought with him and immediately recognized the importance of his discovery. Bauer advised Joseph to write a memoir and provided him with introductions to present the paper and show the specimens to the Royal Society on December 8th.
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Louis Daguerre, Daguerreotype - 1839
Louis Daguerre was a doctor, a painter and a theatrical set designer, but he is best remembered as one of the inventors of photography. Both he and Nicéphore Niepce began... |
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The first Photograph, Joseph Niépce
One hundred and fifty years ago [Summer 1826] Joseph Nicéphore Niépce succeeded in obtaining a camera picture on a polished pewter plate, sensitized with bitumen of Judea... |
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Edwin Land, Inventor Polaroid
Edwin Herbert Land was a American scientist, inventor, and industrialist. While studying physics at Harvard in the 1920s he became interested in the polarization of light... |
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