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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 122,718 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Charles-Émile Reynaud is the 98th most popular inventor (up from 100th in 2019), the 1,106th most popular biography from France (up from 1,146th in 2019) and the 16th 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 98 out of 354Before him are Étienne-Jules Marey, Elisha Otis, Leo Fender, Johann Maria Farina, Wolfgang von Kempelen, and Bob Kahn. After him are Edmund Cartwright, Léon Theremin, Henri Coandă, Robert Noyce, Taiichi Ohno, and W. O. Bentley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Charles-Émile Reynaud ranks 26Before him are Menelik II, Muhammad Ahmad, Friedrich Miescher, Abdur Rahman Khan, Ismail Qemali, and Charles-Marie Widor. After him are `Abdu'l-Bahá, Karl Lueger, Julius Wellhausen, Sophia Tolstaya, Saitō Hajime, and Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon. Among people deceased in 1918, Charles-Émile Reynaud ranks 38Before him are Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Arrigo Boito, Hermann Cohen, Frank Wedekind, Lili Boulanger, and Aleksandr Lyapunov. After him are Eusebi Güell, Koloman Moser, Emil Jellinek, Andrew Dickson White, John Bauer, and Julius Wellhausen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles-Émile Reynaud ranks 1,106 out of 6,011Before him are Pierre d'Ailly (1350), William of Gellone (750), Claudette Colbert (1903), Hugh of Italy (880), Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (1523), and Maurice Halbwachs (1877). After him are Didier Deschamps (1968), Maria Schneider (1952), Emmanuel Chabrier (1841), Claude Joseph Vernet (1714), Claude Lanzmann (1925), and Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma (1930).

Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Charles-Émile Reynaud ranks 16Before him are Louis Renault (1877), Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), André-Jacques Garnerin (1769), Claude Chappe (1763), Alphonse Bertillon (1853), and Étienne-Jules Marey (1830). After him are André Michelin (1853), Clément Ader (1841), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), Henri Giffard (1825), Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), and Louis Le Prince (1841).