Niepce's process
Related to Niepce's process: heliography, Louis Daguerre
Niep´ce's proc´ess
| 1. | (Photog.) A process, now no longer used, invented by J. N. Niepce, a French chemist, in 1829. It depends upon the action of light in rendering a thin layer of bitumen, with which the plate is coated, insoluble. |
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.