Who was the inventor of the first practical process of photography?

The invention of Photography is subject to some debate. Joseph Nicephore Niepce(1765-1833) created the first photograph on a glass plate using a camera obscura in 1826. His associate Louis Daguerre(1787-1851) invented the worlds first widely used photographic process, known as the Daguerreotype in 1839.

At the same time in England, William Fox Talbot (1800-1877) was attempting to create a permanent record of an image, he announced his calotype process in 1841. The English claim to have truly invented photography since Fox Talbots's was the first negative-positive process from which any number of prints could be made.