Ever wondered when was photography invented? Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, a Frenchman, is the person who takes the credit for taking the world's first permanent photograph in around 1826. Interestingly, ...

In 1827, French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the earliest known surviving photograph with a camera obscura, a “dark room” that anticipated the camera and required an exposure of several days.

An astronomer and a photographer captured the first photograph of star 175 years ago on July 17, 1850. This image of Vega in the sky over Harvard is the first known photograph of a star other than our ...