Jules Carpentier
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Jules Carpentier (1851-1921) 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 ans 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.
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- Biography by the French Ecole Polytechnique de Paris
