Which Happened First?

Nicéphore Niépce

Nicéphore Niépce
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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor and one of the pioneers of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving products of a photographic process.

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Who was born first?

Timeline

  1. Claude ChappeDecember 25, 1763 – January 23, 1805
  2. Eli WhitneyDecember 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825
  3. Nicéphore Niépce (this page)March 7, 1765 – July 5, 1833
  4. Robert FultonNovember 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815
  5. Sequoyahcirca 1770 – August 1843
  6. Alois SenefelderNovember 6, 1771 – February 26, 1834

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