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The inventor of Photography-Nicephore niepce

Joseph Nicephore Niepce (March 7, 1765 - July 5, 1833) is a French Inventor of Photography. He is best known for producing the first Photograph in 1825, Niepce called his process as Holography  which translates to Sun writing among the Niepce other inventions was the Pyreolophore one of the world's first internal combustion engines. It  was invented in the early 19th century in Chalon-sur-saone, France by the Niepce brothers: Nicephore. In 1807 the brothers ran a prototype internal combustion engine, and on 20 July 1807 a patent was granted by Napoleon Bonaparte after it had successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saone.

  Niepce didn't have a steady enough hand to capture the inverted image by the camera popular in his day, so he look forward to capture the image permanently.  Niepce original experimented with photography to attempt to preserve an image