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[[File:Claude Niepce-drawing-1851.jpeg|thumb|[[Chromolithography|Chromolithograph]] depicting [[Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre]] and Claude Félix Abel Niépce.]]
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'''Claude Félix Abel Niépce''' (1763 – 1828) was a French inventor and the older brother of the more celebrated [[Nicéphore Niépce]]. Claude traveled to England to try to find a sponsor for their internal combustion engine and died there. His brother's later successful development of photography has eclipsed the part played by Claude.<ref>[http://culturalcartography.net/wiki/index.php?title=Claude_Ni%C3%A9pce Claude Niépce] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20120730033654/http://culturalcartography.net/wiki/index.php?title=Claude_Ni%C3%A9pce |date=30 July 2012 }} at Cultural Cartography.</ref>
'''Claude Félix Abel Niépce''' (1764–1828) was a French inventor and the older brother of the more celebrated [[Nicéphore Niépce]]. Claude traveled to England to try to find a sponsor for their internal combustion engine and died there. His brother's later successful development of photography has eclipsed the part played by Claude.<ref>[http://culturalcartography.net/wiki/index.php?title=Claude_Ni%C3%A9pce Claude Niépce] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20120730033654/http://culturalcartography.net/wiki/index.php?title=Claude_Ni%C3%A9pce |date=30 July 2012 }} at Cultural Cartography.</ref>


==Life==
==Life==
[[File:Pyreolophore.JPG|thumb|Diagram of the first internal combustion engine,the Pyreolophore, of 1806 which was powered by a mixture of coal dust and lycopodium powder.]]
[[File:Pyreolophore.JPG|thumb|Diagram of the first internal combustion engine,the Pyreolophore, of 1806 which was powered by a mixture of coal dust and lycopodium powder.]]
Claude Félix Abel Niépce was born in 1763, in [[Chalon-sur-Saône]], in [[Burgundy]], into a family of landowners with connections to the Royal Court. His younger brother Nicéphore, who during the [[French Revolution]] had served in [[Sardinia]] and [[Italy]], retired from the army in 1794 to recover from an eye disorder, and settled in [[Nice]]. Claude joined him there and they conceived the idea of an [[Internal combustion engine|internal-combustion engine]].
Claude Félix Abel Niépce was born to Claudine Thérèse Augustine (née De Courteville) and Bernard Niepce, a lawyer, on 28 October 1764,<ref>Cercle Généalogique de Saône-et-Loire, comp. ''Base de données indexées à partir de registres de naissance''. Mâcon, France: Cercle Généalogique de Saône-et-Loire, 2009.</ref> in [[Chalon-sur-Saône]], in [[Burgundy]], landowners whose ancestors had connections to the Royal Court. His younger brother Nicéphore, who during the [[French Revolution]] had served in [[Sardinia]] and [[Italy]], retired from the army in 1794 to recover from an eye disorder, and settled in [[Nice]]. Claude joined him there and they conceived the idea of an [[Internal combustion engine|internal-combustion engine]].


In 1801 they returned to oversee the family estate, Le Gras, in the village of [[Saint-Loup-de-Varennes]], near Chalon and there they worked together on a number of projects, including the innovative hydraulic engine powered by a mixture of coal dust and [[lycopodium powder]] – the [[Pyréolophore]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Niépce |first=Nicéphore |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1120073 |title=Lettres, 1816-1817. Correspondance conservé à Chalon-sur-Saône. |last2=Niépce |first2=Claude |date=1973 |publisher=Pavillon de la photographie du Parc naturel régional de Brotonne |pages=10-12, 22, 34, 63, 69, 85, 88, 95 |language=fr |oclc=1120073}}</ref> the world's first internal combustion boat motor – which they tested successfully on the nearby [[Saône|River Saône]]. Responding to a public competition in 1807, the brothers developed a [[hydraulic pump]] system for the town of Marly to deliver water to [[Versailles, Yvelines|Versailles]].
In 1801 they returned to oversee the family estate, Le Gras, in the village of [[Saint-Loup-de-Varennes]], near Chalon and there they worked together on a number of projects, including the innovative hydraulic engine powered by a mixture of coal dust and [[lycopodium powder]] – the [[Pyréolophore]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Niépce |first=Nicéphore |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1120073 |title=Lettres, 1816-1817. Correspondance conservé à Chalon-sur-Saône. |last2=Niépce |first2=Claude |date=1973 |publisher=Pavillon de la photographie du Parc naturel régional de Brotonne |pages=10-12, 22, 34, 63, 69, 85, 88, 95 |language=fr |oclc=1120073}}</ref> the world's first internal combustion boat motor – which they tested successfully on the nearby [[Saône|River Saône]]. Responding to a public competition in 1807, the brothers developed a [[hydraulic pump]] system for the town of Marly to deliver water to [[Versailles, Yvelines|Versailles]].
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Chromolithograph depicting Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre and Claude Félix Abel Niépce.

Claude Félix Abel Niépce (1764–1828) was a French inventor and the older brother of the more celebrated Nicéphore Niépce. Claude traveled to England to try to find a sponsor for their internal combustion engine and died there. His brother's later successful development of photography has eclipsed the part played by Claude.[1]

Life

Diagram of the first internal combustion engine,the Pyreolophore, of 1806 which was powered by a mixture of coal dust and lycopodium powder.

Claude Félix Abel Niépce was born to Claudine Thérèse Augustine (née De Courteville) and Bernard Niepce, a lawyer, on 28 October 1764,[2] in Chalon-sur-Saône, in Burgundy, landowners whose ancestors had connections to the Royal Court. His younger brother Nicéphore, who during the French Revolution had served in Sardinia and Italy, retired from the army in 1794 to recover from an eye disorder, and settled in Nice. Claude joined him there and they conceived the idea of an internal-combustion engine.

In 1801 they returned to oversee the family estate, Le Gras, in the village of Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, near Chalon and there they worked together on a number of projects, including the innovative hydraulic engine powered by a mixture of coal dust and lycopodium powder – the Pyréolophore,[3] the world's first internal combustion boat motor – which they tested successfully on the nearby River Saône. Responding to a public competition in 1807, the brothers developed a hydraulic pump system for the town of Marly to deliver water to Versailles.

Claude and Nicéphore were granted a patent for their internal combustion engine by the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807. They continued experimentation, using liquid fuel instead of powder, including a natural asphalt known as Bitumen of Judea, and in the process developed in effect the first fuel injection system.[4] Life in post-revolutionary France was difficult and by 1817 they could not attract subsidy and investment, so the ten-year patent expired, despite the improvements to its design. Worried about losing control of the engine, Claude traveled first to Paris and then to England in an attempt to further the project.[3] He received the patent consent of King George III on 23 December 1817.[5]

The patent was not the key to success. Over the next ten years, Claude remained in London, settled in Kew and descended into delirium, whereby he squandered much of the family fortune chasing inappropriate business opportunities for the Pyréolophore.[6][7] Independently, from 1816, Nicéphore experimented with the use of the light-sensitive resins, including the bitumen of Judea previously used as a fuel for the pyréolophore, to coat lithographs stones or plates intended for ink printing as a means of reproducing camera images. In around 1824 he succeeded in producing the first permanent lens images, samples of which he brought to London, via Paris, to visit Claude who had fallen ill.[8] In early 1828 Claude died, and his brother returned to France.

Their cousin Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor was an army lieutenant and French photographic inventor.

References

  1. ^ Claude Niépce Archived 30 July 2012 at archive.today at Cultural Cartography.
  2. ^ Cercle Généalogique de Saône-et-Loire, comp. Base de données indexées à partir de registres de naissance. Mâcon, France: Cercle Généalogique de Saône-et-Loire, 2009.
  3. ^ a b Niépce, Nicéphore; Niépce, Claude (1973). Lettres, 1816-1817. Correspondance conservé à Chalon-sur-Saône (in French). Pavillon de la photographie du Parc naturel régional de Brotonne. pp. 10–12, 22, 34, 63, 69, 85, 88, 95. OCLC 1120073.
  4. ^ Hardenberg, Horst O.; Niepce, Claude; Niepce, Nicéphore (1993). The Niepce brothers' boat engines. Warrendale, PA: Society of Automotive Engineers. ISBN 9781560914464. OCLC 29443448.
  5. ^ "Licence issued by George III of England on 23 December 1817" (in French). Niepce House Museum. Retrieved 19 August 2010.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "Nicéphore Niépce". All-art.org. Retrieved 19 August 2010.
  7. ^ "Joseph Nicéphore Niepce Biography (1765-1833)". madehow.com. Retrieved 19 August 2010.
  8. ^ 1763-1828., Niepce, Claude, (1995). Lettres de Claude Niépce à Nicéphore : 1818 à 1825. Société des amis du Musée Nicéphore Niépce. OCLC 758643257. {{cite book}}: |last= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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