INVENTOR

Nicéphore Niépce

1765 - 1833

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicéphore Niépce has received more than 1,291,895 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Nicéphore Niépce is the 19th most popular inventor, the 270th most popular biography from France (down from 206th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Inventor.

Nicéphore Niépce is most famous for his invention of photography in 1826.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Nicéphore Niépce ranks 19 out of 426. Before him are Samuel Morse, Cai Lun, Nikolaus Otto, Louis Daguerre, George Stephenson, and Rudolf Diesel. After him are Abbas ibn Firnas, Werner von Siemens, Bartolomeo Cristofori, Samuel Colt, Ernő Rubik, and Ismail al-Jazari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1765, Nicéphore Niépce ranks 3. Before him are William IV of the United Kingdom, and Pope Gregory XVI. After him are Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Pyotr Bagration, Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, Charles Felix of Sardinia, Emma, Lady Hamilton, Paolo Ruffini, Jacques MacDonald, and Karl Ludwig Harding. Among people deceased in 1833, Nicéphore Niépce ranks 1. After him are Ferdinand VII of Spain, Kaspar Hauser, Richard Trevithick, Marie-Antoine Carême, Adrien-Marie Legendre, Seraphim of Sarov, William Wilberforce, Ram Mohan Roy, Hugh Glass, Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, and Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicéphore Niépce ranks 270 out of 6,770. Before him are Jules Massenet (1842), Henry I of France (1008), Charles I of Anjou (1226), Frédéric Passy (1822), Charles Gounod (1818), and Pierre Corneille (1606). After him are Camille Claudel (1864), Louis, Dauphin of France (1729), Olympe de Gouges (1748), Arsène Wenger (1949), Francis Picabia (1879), and Vincent de Paul (1581).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Nicéphore Niépce ranks 4. Before him are Louis Braille (1809), Louis Daguerre (1787), and Rudolf Diesel (1858). After him are Denis Papin (1647), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), Nicolas Appert (1749), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Louis Renault (1877), Louis Blériot (1872), Claude Chappe (1763), and Jacques de Vaucanson (1709).

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