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  2. Louis Le Prince - Wikipedia

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    Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (28 August 1841 – disappeared 16 September 1890, declared dead 16 September 1897) was a French artist and the inventor of an early motion-picture camera, and director of Roundhay Garden Scene. He was possibly the first person to shoot a moving picture sequence using a single lens camera and a strip of (paper) film.

  3. History of the camera - Wikipedia

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    The photograph Niépce succeeded in creating shows the view from his window. It was made using an 8-hour exposure on pewter coated with bitumen. [11]: 9 Niépce called his process "heliography". [10]: 5 Niépce corresponded with the inventor Louis Daguerre, and the pair entered into a partnership to improve the heliographic process. Niépce had ...

  4. Vincent Chevalier - Wikipedia

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    He played a key role in the history of the camera. [1] The very first photograph was taken in 1825 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, a French inventor who used a sliding wooden camera box made by Chevalier. [3] [2] He died in 1841 in Paris, France. [1] His son became a manufacturer of cameras and lenses. [3]

  5. This man invented the digital camera in 1975 — and ... - AOL

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    If your employee came to you in 1975 and told you he'd invented the digital camera, what would you do? If you were Kodak, the answer was to effectively shove him in a closet and hope the product ...

  6. History of photography - Wikipedia

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    View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right).. The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection; the second is the discovery that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. [2]

  7. Timeline of photography technology - Wikipedia

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    The oldest surviving camera photograph, by Nicéphore Niépce, 1826 or 1827 [1] View of the Boulevard du Temple, first photograph including a person (on pavement at lower left), by Daguerre, 1838 First durable color photograph, 1861 An 1877 photographic color print on paper by Louis Ducos du Hauron. The irregular edges of the superimposed cyan ...

  8. Thomas Wedgwood (photographer) - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Wedgwood (14 May 1771 – 10 July 1805) was an English photographer and inventor. He is most widely known as an early experimenter in the field of photography.. He is the first person known to have thought of creating permanent pictures by capturing camera images on material coated with a light-sensitive chemical.

  9. Homework - Wikipedia

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    A person doing geometry homework Children preparing homework on the street, Tel Aviv, 1954 Homework is a set of tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed at home . Common homework assignments may include required reading , a writing or typing project, mathematical exercises to be completed, information to be reviewed before a ...