The heliograph did not capture images but projected them onto another surface. It was not until 1839 that Louis Daguerre and Alphonse Giroux teamed up to create the first commercially manufactured ...

Actually, the "first photograph" is a heliograph, or "sun drawing." And its rediscovery was officially announced in 1952, so it's not really news. Sorry. But many visitors to a new exhibition in ...

Niepce’s first photograph was lost for almost half a century. It was rediscovered in 1952 by art collector Helmut Gernshiem in the attic of a London home, and brought to the U.S. in 1963 when it ...

The Heliograph in War. Share full article. May 6, 1900. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from May 6, 1900, Page 29 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

Why is it named Heliograph Peak? That's a different story. Heliography is, of course, the ancient method of sending messages by reflecting sunlight off a mirror or some other polished surface.