Vincent_Chevalier

Vincent Chevalier

Vincent Chevalier

French inventor

Vincent Chevalier (1770 - 1841) was a French engineer, inventor and optician.[1][2]

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Biography

He was born in 1770 in Paris, France.[1] He played a key role in the history of the camera.[1]

The very first photograph was taken in 1825 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, a French inventor who used a sliding wooden camera box made by Chevalier.[3][2]

He died in 1841 in Paris, France.[1]

His son became a manufacturer of cameras and lenses.[3]

Legacy

Chevalier was the first to develop a microscope to use a combination of lens elements corrected for chromatic aberrations.[4]

The sophisticated compound lenses manufactured by Chevalier were described as the "cutting-edge technological craftsmanship of the day".[1]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Vincent Chevalier – Who Knew Whom". culturalcartography.net.
  2. [2]
    "Vincent Chevalier | Biography". www.mutualart.com.
  3. [3]
    "When Was The Camera Invented?".
  4. [4]
    "Molecular Expressions Microscopy Primer: Museum of Microscopy - Nineteenth Century Microscopes". micro.magnet.fsu.edu.
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