360What happened in 1826?
2 moments from 1826 on 360n60, each told in 60 words or fewer.
- History · c. 1826–1827
Niépce takes the oldest surviving photograph from nature
Around 1826 or 1827, the French inventor Nicéphore Niépce captured the view from an upstairs window of his house in Burgundy on a metal plate coated with bitumen. The exposure took many hours, perhaps days. It is the oldest surviving camera photograph. His partner Louis Daguerre developed a faster process, announced to the world in 1839.
- c. 1826–27 · from The 1820s: the Second Saudi State and the first railway
Oldest surviving photograph