He made the first successful photograph — an image of his courtyard, seen from his house — by putting a pewter plate coated with bitumen (a light-sensitive material) in the back of a camera obscura, a black box with a pinhole.
From the phone that has changed phones forever, to futuristic cars, to a building made of water, to a remote-controlled dragonfly — a dazzling display of ingenuity
Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833)