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French inventors

25 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Auguste LumièrePhotographer · PhotographyAuguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière (19 October 1862 – 10 April 1954) was a French engineer, industrialist, biologist, and illusionist.
Émile ReynaudPhotographer · PhotographyCharles-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…
Étienne-Jules MareyPhotographer · PhotographyÉtienne-Jules Marey (lang; 5 March 1830, Beaune, Côte-d'Or – 15 May 1904, Paris) was a French scientist, physiologist, and chronophotographer.
Eugène BourdonArtist · WatchesEugène Bourdon (1808–1884) was a French watchmaker and engineer. He is the inventor of the Bourdon tube pressure gauge for which he obtained a patent in 1849.
Gabriel LippmannPhotographer · PhotographyJonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (16 August 1845 – 12 July 1921) was a French applied physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908 for his invention of the Lippmann plate, a…
Gustave LyonDesigner · DesignGustave Lyon (19 November 1857 – 12 January 1936) was a French piano maker, acoustician and inventor. He was head of Pleyel et Cie from 1887.
Henri RouartArtist · PaintingsStanislas-Henri Rouart (2 October 1833, Paris – 2 January 1912, Paris) was a French engineer, industrialist, art collector and painter.
Hércules FlorenceIllustrator · IllustrationAntoine Hercule Romuald Florence (29 February 1804 – 27 March 1879) was a French-Brazilian painter and inventor, known as the isolate inventor of photography in Brazil, three years before…
Jacques CousteauPhotographer · PhotographyJacques-Yves Cousteau (also; French: [ʒak iv kusto]; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author.
Jean Eugène Robert-HoudinArtist · WatchesJean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ øʒɛn ʁɔbɛʁ udɛ̃]; 7 December 1805 – 13 June 1871) was a French watchmaker, magician and illusionist, widely recognized as the father of…
Louis Arthur Ducos du HauronPhotographer · PhotographyLouis Arthur Ducos du Hauron (8 December 1837 – 31 August 1920) was a French pioneer of color photography.
Louis Carrogis CarmontelleArtist · PaintingsLouis Carrogis Carmontelle (15 August 1717 – 26 December 1806) was a French dramatist, painter, architect, set designer, author, and designer of one of the earliest examples of the French…
Louis LumièrePerson · Film memorabiliaLouis Jean Lumière (5 October 1864 – 6 June 1948) was a French engineer and industrialist who played a key role in the development of photography and cinema.
Pierre Choderlos de LaclosAuthor · BooksPierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos (18 October 1741 – 5 September 1803) was a French novelist, official, Freemason and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel…
Sergei Prokudin-GorskiiPhotographer · PhotographySergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Прокудин-Горский, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ prɐˈkudʲɪn ˈɡorskʲɪj]; August 30 [O.S.
William Kennedy DicksonPerson · Film memorabiliaWilliam Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a British-American inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison.

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