Niepce
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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As they head toward Belle Isle he delivers a disquisition on the history of photography, how Nicephore Niepce invented it, and how Daguerre got all the credit.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
But she did not visit those termini; she was too busy looking after M. Niepce, her grocer.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold
To Nicéphore Niepce, a Frenchman, belongs the honor of producing the first camera picture.
From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff
Niepce and Daguerre--pursued the subject simultaneously, without either, however being aware of the experiments of his colleague in science.
From History and Practice of the Art of Photography by Snelling, Henry Hunt
The resonance of its closing would have certainly wakened less accomplished sleepers than M. Niepce and his friend, whose snores continued with undisturbed regularity.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold
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