Vincent Chevalier (1770 - 1841) was a French engineer, inventor and optician.
Biography He was born in 1770 in Paris, France. He played a key role in the history of the camera. 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. He died in 1841 in Paris, France. His son became a manufacturer of cameras and lenses.
Legacy Chevalier was the first to develop a microscope to use a combination of lens elements corrected for chromatic aberrations. The sophisticated compound lenses manufactured by Chevalier were described as the "cutting-edge technological craftsmanship of the day".
See also History of the camera Heliography
References
External links Vincent Chevalier – Who Knew Whom Vincent Chevalier and Son | Science Museum Group Collection