<P> The first partially successful photograph of a camera image was made in approximately 1816 by Nicéphore Niépce , using a very small camera of his own making and a piece of paper coated with silver chloride , which darkened where it was exposed to light . No means of removing the remaining unaffected silver chloride was known to Niépce , so the photograph was not permanent , eventually becoming entirely darkened by the overall exposure to light necessary for viewing it . In the mid-1820s , Niépce used a sliding wooden box camera made by Parisian opticians Charles and Vincent Chevalier to experiment with photography on surfaces thinly coated with Bitumen of Judea . The bitumen slowly hardened in the brightest areas of the image . The unhardened bitumen was then dissolved away . One of those photographs has survived . </P>
<P> The first partially successful photograph of a camera image was made in approximately 1816 by Nicéphore Niépce , using a very small camera of his own making and a piece of paper coated with silver chloride , which darkened where it was exposed to light . No means of removing the remaining unaffected silver chloride was known to Niépce , so the photograph was not permanent , eventually becoming entirely darkened by the overall exposure to light necessary for viewing it . In the mid-1820s , Niépce used a sliding wooden box camera made by Parisian opticians Charles and Vincent Chevalier to experiment with photography on surfaces thinly coated with Bitumen of Judea . The bitumen slowly hardened in the brightest areas of the image . The unhardened bitumen was then dissolved away . One of those photographs has survived . </P>
who invented the first camera in the 1800s
who invented the first camera in the 1800s
Nicéphore Niépce
Nicéphore Niépce