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Charles Cros

1842 - 1888

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Charles Cros or Émile-Hortensius-Charles Cros (1 October 1842 – 9 August 1888) was a French poet and inventor. He was born in Fabrezan, Aude. Cros was a well-regarded poet and humorous writer. As an inventor, he was interested in the fields of transmitting graphics by telegraph and making photographs in color, but he is perhaps best known for being the first person to conceive a method for reproducing recorded sound, an invention he named the Paleophone. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Cros is the 173rd most popular inventor, the 2,194th most popular biography from France and the 25th most popular French Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Charles Cros ranks 174 out of 426. Before him are Robert Watson-Watt, Robert Metcalfe, Charles Algernon Parsons, Jang Yeong-sil, John Ericsson, Sandford Fleming, and Heinrich Göbel. After him are Uziel Gal, Gaston Glock, Henrich Focke, Émile Baudot, and Artur Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Charles Cros ranks 45. Before him are Ōyama Iwao, Gaston, Count of Eu, Vilhelm Thomsen, Hugo Schuchardt, François Coppée, Rikard Nordraak, Georg Ritter von Schönerer, Osman Hamdi Bey, Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia, and Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko. After him are Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein, and Alexandre Ribot. Among people deceased in 1888, Charles Cros ranks 32. Before him are Namık Kemal, Ludvig Nobel, Elizabeth Stride, Edward Lear, Jean-Marie Guyau, and Princess Helena of Nassau. After him are Catherine Eddowes, Vsevolod Garshin, Henri Herz, Eugène Marin Labiche, Dora d'Istria, and Josif Pančić.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Cros ranks 2,194 out of 6,770. Before him are Hervé (1825), Éric Zemmour (1958), Guillaume Dupuytren (1777), Sami Frey (1937), Pierre Gringore (1475), and Léon Cogniet (1794). After him are Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (1704), Pierre Nora (1931), Marina Ginestà (1919), Avitus of Vienne (450), Maria of Navarre (1326), and Bernadette Lafont (1938).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Charles Cros ranks 25. Before him are André Michelin (1853), Henri Giffard (1825), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), Édouard Branly (1844), and Guillaume Amontons (1663). After him are Joseph Monier (1823), Georges Claude (1870), Charles Xavier Thomas (1785), Émile Baudot (1845), Georges Hébert (1875), and Léon Gaumont (1864).

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