Eugene Augustin Lauste
Eugène Augustin Lauste (17 January 1857 in
Life
By age 23 he had filed 53 French patents. He emigrated to the United States in 1886 and started working at the
Lauste also worked on an idea for a combustible gasoline engine; he did develop a working model in the 1890s but gave up when told that such a noisy device would never be widely used. He then worked with Major Woodville Latham, for whom he engineered the Eidoloscope[2] and assisted with the design of the Latham loop.[3] (Later, Dickson would credit Lauste with the loop's invention.)
The Eidoloscope was demonstrated for members of the press on 21 April 1895 and opened to the paying public on 20 May, in a lower Broadway store[4] with films of the Griffo-Barnett prize fight, taken from Madison Square Garden's roof on 4 May.[5] Thanks to the Latham loop inside the camera, the entire fight could be continuously shot on a single reel of film. He held regular displays of the pictures that summer in a Coney Island tent.
He joined the
From 1928 until his death, Lauste was a consultant for
See also
References
- ^ ISSN 0892-2160.
- ^ a b Monaghan, Peter (24 August 2010). "Detecting the History of Sound-on-Film". Moving Image Archive News. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
- ^ Domankiewicz, Peter (20 May 2020). "Happy 125th Birthday, Cinema! Part 1". William Friese-Greene & Me. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
- ^ Domankiewicz, Peter (20 May 2020). "Happy 125th Birthday, Cinema! Part 2". William Friese-Greene & Me. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
- ISBN 9780520940581. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
- ^ Theisen, WE (April 1941). "Pioneering in the Talking Picture". J. SMPTE. 36 (4): 415–444.
Sources
- Eyman, Scott (1997). The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926–1930. New York: Simon & Schuster (chapter 1 available online). ISBN 0-684-81162-6
- ISBN 0-684-18413-3.