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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 174th most popular inventor (down from 173rd in 2019), the 2,259th most popular biography from France (down from 2,193rd in 2019) 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 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, Artur Fischer, and Harold Eugene Edgerton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Charles Cros ranks 45. Before him are 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, Alexandre Ribot, Catherine Eddowes, Maria Konopnicka, Maurice Rouvier, and Mary Putnam Jacobi. Among people deceased in 1888, Charles Cros ranks 31. Before him are Ludvig Nobel, Edward Lear, Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Namık Kemal, and Princess Helena of Nassau. After him are Elizabeth Stride, Dora d'Istria, George Robert Waterhouse, Catherine Eddowes, Josif Pančić, and Vsevolod Garshin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Cros ranks 2,259 out of 6,770. Before him are Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano (1628), Eric Abidal (1979), Peter I, Duke of Brittany (1191), Guillaume Dubois (1656), Augustin Barruel (1741), and Marguerite of Lorraine (1615). After him are Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1669), Jacques Collin de Plancy (1794), Fulbert of Chartres (960), Bertrand Barère (1755), Urbain Grandier (1590), and Jean-Dominique Bauby (1952).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Charles Cros ranks 25. Before him are Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), Louis Le Prince (1841), Henri Giffard (1825), Joseph Monier (1823), and Guillaume Amontons (1663). After him are Émile Baudot (1845), Georges Claude (1870), Édouard Branly (1844), Charles Xavier Thomas (1785), Wan Hu (1510), and Georges Hébert (1875).

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