Vincent Chevalier
Vincent Chevalier (1770 - 1841) was a French engineer, inventor and optician.
Also recorded as Jacques Louis Vincent Chevalier · Jacques Louis Vincent, Ainé Chevalier
Vincent Chevalier
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- Vincent Chevalier
- Born
- 1770
- Died
- 1841
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Occupation
- Optician
- Nationality
- France
- Languages
- French
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Vincent Chevalier (1770 - 1841) was a French engineer, inventor and optician.
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• Name — Vincent Chevalier • Born — 1770 • Died — 1841 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Place of death — Paris, France • Occupation — Optician
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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.
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Vincent Chevalier was born at Paris.
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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".
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