Vincent Chevalier

Vincent Chevalier 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".