Jules Carpentier
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Jules Carpentier was a French engineer and inventor.
Jules Carpentier was a student at the French École polytechnique
.
He bought the Ruhmkorff workshops in Paris
when Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff
died and made it a successful business for building electrical and magnetical devices. From 1890, he started to build photographic and cinematographic cameras. He is the designer of the submarine periscope
, and worked at the adjustment of trichromic process of colour photography.
He patented the "Cinématographe
", which serves as a film projector and developer in the late 1890s, and built devices from the Lumière Brothers.
He died in 1921 in a car accident in Joigny, France.
Jules Carpentier was a student at the French École polytechnique
École Polytechnique
The École Polytechnique is a state-run institution of higher education and research in Palaiseau, Essonne, France, near Paris. Polytechnique is renowned for its four year undergraduate/graduate Master's program...
.
He bought the Ruhmkorff workshops in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
when Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff
Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff
250px|right|thumb|Ruhmkorff inductor250px|right|thumb|Tombstone of Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff on the [[Montparnasse Cemetery]] in [[Paris]]Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff was a German instrument maker who commercialised the induction coil Ruhmkorff was born in Hanover...
died and made it a successful business for building electrical and magnetical devices. From 1890, he started to build photographic and cinematographic cameras. He is the designer of the submarine periscope
Periscope
A periscope is an instrument for observation from a concealed position. In its simplest form it consists of a tube with mirrors at each end set parallel to each other at a 45-degree angle....
, and worked at the adjustment of trichromic process of colour photography.
He patented the "Cinématographe
Cinematographe
A cinematograph is a film camera, which also serves as a film projector and developer. It was invented in the 1890s.Note that this was not the first 'moving picture' device. Louis Le Prince had built early devices in 1886. His 1888 film Roundhay Garden Scene still survives.There is much dispute as...
", which serves as a film projector and developer in the late 1890s, and built devices from the Lumière Brothers.
He died in 1921 in a car accident in Joigny, France.
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