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When was Nicéphore Niépce born?

  • 1765

  • 1745

  • 1785

  • 1705

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Nicéphore Niépce, known as the inventor of the world's first photograph, was born in 1765. He experimented with various methods of reproducing images, eventually succeeding in capturing a fixed image using a bitumen-coated pewter plate in 1826. This breakthrough moment marked the birth of photography, revolutionizing the way people recorded and preserved visual information.
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