Louis Lumière

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Louis Jean Lumière (5 October 1864

Lumière was one of four children of Claude-Antoine Lumière, a photographer and painter, and his wife Jeanne-Joséphine (née Costille). At the Martinière Technical School he gained highest marks in his class.[1]

Career

At age 17, Lumière invented a new process for film development using a dry plate. This process was significantly successful for the family business, permitting the opening of a new factory with an eventual production of 15 million plates per year.^[2] Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope inspired his and his brother's subsequent work on the cinematograph.^[3]

Louis Lumière is most often associated with the name of his brother,

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