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Charles-Émile Reynaud

1844 - 1918

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Charles-Émile Reynaud (8 December 1844 – 9 January 1918) was a French inventor, responsible for the praxinoscope (an animation device patented in 1877 that improved on the zoetrope) and was responsible for the first projected animated films. His Pantomimes Lumineuses premiered on 28 October 1892 in Paris. His Théâtre Optique film system, patented in 1888, is also notable as the first known instance of film perforations being used. The performances predated Auguste and Louis Lumière's first paid public screening of the cinematographe on 26 December 1895, often seen as the birth of cinema. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles-Émile Reynaud is the 103rd most popular inventor (up from 115th in 2019), the 1,231st most popular biography from France (up from 1,337th in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Inventor.

Charles-Émile Reynaud was a French inventor who created the praxinoscope, which was a device that projected animated images.

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Among inventors, Charles-Émile Reynaud ranks 103 out of 426. Before him are Daniel Swarovski, John Harrison, Momofuku Ando, Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Richard Arkwright, and Elisha Otis. After him are Kōnosuke Matsushita, Henry Bessemer, Étienne-Jules Marey, Orban, Walter Hunt, and Abraham-Louis Breguet.

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Among people born in 1844, Charles-Émile Reynaud ranks 28. Before him are Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Muhammad Ahmad, Charles-Marie Widor, Abdur Rahman Khan, Julius Wellhausen, and Adolf Engler. After him are Friedrich Miescher, Sophia Tolstaya, Henry J. Heinz, Karl Lueger, George W. De Long, and Princess Maria Immacolata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. Among people deceased in 1918, Charles-Émile Reynaud ranks 45. Before him are Aleksandr Lyapunov, Frank Wedekind, Andrew Dickson White, Eusebi Güell, Julius Wellhausen, and Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow. After him are István Tisza, Ivan Cankar, Koloman Moser, César Ritz, Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia, and Anna Dostoevskaya.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles-Émile Reynaud ranks 1,231 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737), Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767), Étienne-Louis Malus (1775), Louis, Count of Évreux (1276), Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (1156), and Maurice Ronet (1927). After him are Pepin II of Aquitaine (823), Gottfried von Strassburg (1180), Étienne Gilson (1884), Bertrade de Montfort (1070), Élisée Reclus (1830), and Honoré III, Prince of Monaco (1720).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Charles-Émile Reynaud ranks 15. Before him are Louis Blériot (1872), Louis Renault (1877), Claude Chappe (1763), Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), Alphonse Bertillon (1853), and André-Jacques Garnerin (1769). After him are Étienne-Jules Marey (1830), Clément Ader (1841), André Michelin (1853), Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), and Louis Le Prince (1841).

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