[HN Gopher] The First Photograph Ever Taken (1826)
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The First Photograph Ever Taken (1826)
Author : anyonecancode
Score : 31 points
Date : 2025-07-21 00:49 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.openculture.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.openculture.com)
| jandrese wrote:
| > In 1827, Niepce traveled to England to visit his brother. While
| there, with the assistance of English botanist Francis Bauer, he
| presented a paper on his new invention to the Royal Society. His
| findings were rejected, however, because he opted not to fully
| reveal the details, hoping to make economic gains with a
| proprietary method.
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| And in doing so joins the graveyard of many promising
| technologies that were left by the wayside of history because the
| inventor thought more about locking people out than getting them
| on board.
| fsckboy wrote:
| the quality of that original photograph (the protograph by the
| photographUr) actually looks better than the photograph of that
| photograph on that web page.
| ge96 wrote:
| There are some cool videos on YT people developing photos on a
| slice of a potato
| HelloUsername wrote:
| Same article also posted back in 04-feb-2016
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032520
| nocoiner wrote:
| I saw this one time. It wasn't a whole lot to look at (even in a
| darkened booth, it was only barely discernible) but that only
| added to the overall spooky effect of looking back visually into
| the past to the first instant a visual representation was
| captured. I would recommend visiting it if you're ever on or near
| the UT campus.
| ncr100 wrote:
| /s
|
| Half expecting it to be a picture of Donald J Trump.
|
| Most photographed.
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