Who took the first photograph?
First PHOTOGRAPH.
The first PHOTOGRAPH from nature, permanently fixed, was taker. by Nicephore Niepce from an upper-storey window at his house at Gras, near Chalon-sur-Saone, France. probably in the summer of 1826, and represents a view of the courtyard with a pigeon-house on the left, a pear tree bake house and barn in the centre, and another wing of the house to the right of the picture. It was made in a camera obscure obtained from the Paris firm of opticians Chevalier et fits in January of the same year. A metal plate was rendered light sensitive with a solution of bitumen of Judea and exposed in the camera for about 8 hr. The latent image was then developed by washing the plate with a mixture of oil of lavender and white petroleum, a process that dissolved away those parts of the bitumen that had not been hardened by light. The resulting picture was a permanent direct positive.
During the following year, while on a visit to his brother at Kew, Niepce presented this photograph to the English naturalist Francis B aver.
