Vincent Chevalier

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]

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]

• History of the camera
• Heliography