While the principles of photography had been understood for centuries, scientists struggled to develop a way to permanently record a photographic image. The first person to accomplish this was Joseph Nicephore Niépce (1765-1833), who in 1825 used a technique called heliogravure to capture a photograph of an engraving of a man walking a horse.
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