Even if you hadn’t blinked 33,600,000 times (the average amount of human blinks per year over eight years) from way back until now, you still would have missed the following marvel of human ...

The world's first photograph by Joseph Niepce. Taken from a window of his Le Gras estate at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France, it was produced by exposing a bitumen-coated pewter plate in a camera ...

The first camera was invented in 1816 by Frenchman Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. In 1827, his prototype was used to take the first photograph ever, which captured the view out the window of his home at Le ...

An 1826 image widely acknowledged as the world’s earliest photograph is the subject of its own close-up, the first in the half-century since a historian hauled the faint snapshot out of an old trunk.

In 1827, Frenchman Joseph Nicephore Niepce placed a metal plate coated in a strange chemical in the window of his country home. The concoction baked in the sun for eight hours, creating a hazy image ...

In a vitrine on the sixth floor of the Harry Ransom Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin lies one of the most curious and oracular artifacts on display in America: a slightly dented ...

For most, retirement is a time for rest, but for Saji Ennakkad, a retired Kerala State Electricity Board senior superintendent, it is a time for creation—he is spending his life savings on building a ...

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce captured the first photograph with a camera from the upstairs window of his estate in the Burgundy region of France in 1826. But the first camera goes back to prehistoric times ...