Heliography (in French, héliographie) is the photographic process invented by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce around 1822, which he used to make the earliest known permanent photograph from nature, View from the Window at Le Gras (c. 1826). The process used Bitumen of Judea, a naturally occurring asphalt, as a coating on glass or metal. It hardened in ...
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description of the sun
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• (n.) Photography. • (n.) The description of the sun. • (n.) An early photographic process invented by Nicephore Niepce, and still used in photo-engraving. It consists essentially in exposing under a design or in a camera a polished metal plate coated with a preparation of asphalt, and subsequently treating the plate with a suitable...
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(from the article `photography, history of`) Nicéphore Niépce, an amateur inventor living near Chalon-sur-Saône, a city 189 miles (304 km) southeast of Paris, was interested in lithography, a ... ...had been attempting to obtain permanent pictures by the action of sunlight, learned in 1826 of Daguerre`s efforts in th...
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Synonym for photography ... 1. The science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like. ... 2. The art or process of producing pictures by this action of light. ... The well-focused optical image is thrown on a surface of metal, glass, paper, or other suitable substanc...
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He`li·og'ra·phy noun [
Helio- +
-graphy .] Photography.
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heliography 1. The use of a signaling device that uses flashes of sunlight. Two mirrors reflect sunlight on a distant point through a shutter so that messages may be transmitted in telegraphic code. 2. A process where an instrument records the amount and duration of sunshine, often on a strip of blueprint paper.
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