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Charles-Émile Reynaud

1844 - 1918

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Charles-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 responsible for the first projected animated films. His Pantomimes Lumineuses premiered on 28 October 1892 in Paris. His Théâtre Optique film system, patented in 1888, is also notable as the first known instance of film perforations being used. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles-Émile Reynaud has received more than 126,862 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles-Émile Reynaud is the 115th most popular inventor (down from 98th in 2019), the 1,337th most popular biography from France (down from 1,103rd in 2019) and the 18th most popular French Inventor.

Charles-Émile Reynaud was a French inventor who created the praxinoscope, which was a device that projected animated images.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Charles-Émile Reynaud ranks 115 out of 426. Before him are Abraham-Louis Breguet, Gaston Glock, Lee de Forest, Léon Theremin, Alfred Krupp, and Zacharias Janssen. After him are Josiah Warren, André Michelin, Hiram Maxim, Theobald Boehm, Percy Spencer, and Josef Ressel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Charles-Émile Reynaud ranks 30. Before him are Charles-Marie Widor, Karl Lueger, `Abdu'l-Bahá, Abdur Rahman Khan, Julius Wellhausen, and Adolf Engler. After him are Sophia Tolstaya, Saitō Hajime, Thomas Eakins, Henry J. Heinz, Victorine Meurent, and William Robert Brooks. Among people deceased in 1918, Charles-Émile Reynaud ranks 53. Before him are Sai Baba of Shirdi, Ivan Cankar, John Bauer, César Ritz, Daniel Burley Woolfall, and Vasily Radlov. After him are Paul von Rennenkampf, Princess Anna of Prussia, Victor Adler, August Oetker, Mikhail Alekseyev, and Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles-Émile Reynaud ranks 1,337 out of 6,770. Before him are Robert IV of Sablé (1150), Ansegisel (602), John III of Navarre (1477), Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (1187), Jaufre Rudel (1125), and René Arnoux (1948). After him are Pepin the Hunchback (770), Bernard of Italy (797), Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine (1609), Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise (1768), John Eudes (1601), and Michel Serres (1930).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Charles-Émile Reynaud ranks 18. Before him are Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), Étienne-Jules Marey (1830), André-Jacques Garnerin (1769), Alphonse Bertillon (1853), Louis Le Prince (1841), and Clément Ader (1841). After 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).

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