Vincent Chevalier (1770 - 1841) was a French engineer, inventor and optician.
Biography
He was born in 1770 in
Paris
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, France.
He played a key role in the
history of the camera
The history of the camera began even before the introduction of photography. Cameras evolved from the ''camera obscura'' through many generations of photographic technologydaguerreotypes, calotypes, dry plates, photographic film, filmto the mo ...
.
The very first photograph was taken in 1825 by
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
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, a French inventor who used a sliding wooden camera box made by Chevalier.
He died in 1841 in
Paris
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,
France
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.
His son became a manufacturer of cameras and lenses.
Legacy
Chevalier was the first to develop a microscope to use a combination of lens elements corrected for chromatic aberrations.
The sophisticated compound lenses manufactured by Chevalier were described as the "cutting-edge technological craftsmanship of the day".
See also
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History of the camera
The history of the camera began even before the introduction of photography. Cameras evolved from the ''camera obscura'' through many generations of photographic technologydaguerreotypes, calotypes, dry plates, photographic film, filmto the mo ...
*
Heliography
Heliography is an early photographic process, based on the hardening of bitumen in sunlight. It was invented by Nicéphore Niépce around 1822. Niépce used the process to make the earliest known surviving photograph from nature, '' View from ...
References
External links
Vincent Chevalier – Who Knew WhomVincent Chevalier and Son , Science Museum Group Collection
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19th-century French inventors
French engineers
1770 births
1841 deaths