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Kazimierz Prószyński

1875 - 1945

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Kazimierz Prószyński (4 April 1875 – 13 March 1945) was a Polish inventor active in the field of cinematography. He patented his first film camera, called Pleograph, before the Lumière brothers, and later went on to improve the cinema projector for the Gaumont company. He was also the inventor of the widely used first hand-held Aeroscope camera. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kazimierz Prószyński is the 353rd most popular inventor (up from 357th in 2019), the 1,064th most popular biography from Poland (up from 1,080th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Kazimierz Prószyński ranks 353 out of 426. Before him are Prokop Diviš, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Henry M. Leland, Thomas Wedgwood, Kálmán Tihanyi, and Albrecht Berblinger. After him are John Fitch, Dan Bricklin, Per Georg Scheutz, Jay Miner, Margaret E. Knight, and Joseph Bramah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Kazimierz Prószyński ranks 165. Before him are Dobri Hristov, Sigurður Eggerz, Georgios Papasideris, Konstantin Yuon, Jean-Guy Gautier, and Marmaduke Pickthall. After him are Hasrat Mohani, Joseph Dempsey, Béla Békessy, Charles Gondouin, Andreas Michalakopoulos, and Tomás Berreta. Among people deceased in 1945, Kazimierz Prószyński ranks 312. Before him are Frederic Clements, Sigurður Eggerz, Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, Richard Bong, Milton S. Hershey, and Vikenty Veresaev. After him are Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov, Ernie Pyle, Janko Jesenský, Xian Xinghai, Klaus Junge, and Blind Willie Johnson.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Kazimierz Prószyński ranks 1,064 out of 1,694. Before him are Jadwiga Barańska (1935), Urszula Dudziak (1943), Anna Świrszczyńska (1909), Oskar Kolberg (1814), Wacław Potocki (1621), and Heinrich Laube (1806). After him are Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak (1929), Piotr Zieliński (1994), Alina Janowska (1923), Jan Sztolcman (1854), Danas Pozniakas (1939), and Gustaw Holoubek (1923).

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Among INVENTORS In Poland

Among inventors born in Poland, Kazimierz Prószyński ranks 4. Before him are Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860), Gunther von Hagens (1945), and Ottomar Anschütz (1846).

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