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In order to answer this, one needs to solidify a definition for camera. Therefore, for the purposes of answering this question I will go with the commonly accepted definition: A device/equipment that is capable of taking photographs.The first camera was invented by Nicéphore Niépce; he created his own cameras and took the first photograph in 1817. However, the first photograph was not permanent and faded away, and so, in 1827, he made permanent images using a sliding wooden box camera, made by Vincent and Charles Chevalier in Paris, France. If one was to be talking about a camera that does not take photos, and rather a camera that projects an image of a scene upside-down, this technology would trace back to the ancient Chinese and the Ancient Greek.

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