In 1826 or 1827, French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce made history when he took the world's first photograph from the ...

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 ...

He adapted the camera obscura (a simple lens-based device) which had been used for over 1000 years. Niepce realised that he could fix images by dissolving asphalt in a thinner and painting this ...