Important Inventors in the History of Film Technology

The list will be added to from time to time

EDISON, Thomas Alva (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) Held many patents on film technology many of which appear not to have been his, but stolen from others. He had smuggled a print of Georges Méliès Trip to the Moon out of France and reproduced in the U.S. and rented it with no compensation going to Méliès. Known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park" (now Edison, NJ)

DICKERSON, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) Anglo-Scots inventor, born in France. One of Edison's assistants charged with developing a motion picture viewer. Later he split off from Edison and formed his own company

LUMIÈRE brothers.(August (1862-1954) and Louis (1864-1948):Pioneer film makers and inventors of a projection system for films.

MUYBRIDGE, Eadward (April 9, 1830 – May 8, 1904) Still photographer who became involved with Stockton to prove whether a horse had all its feet off the ground when it ran. Muybridge's photos, made by having several cameras placed along a race track with trip wires, was able make a "series" of photos which were the forerunners of the motion picture. He developed the zoopraxiscope as well.

PARIS, John Ayrton (1785-1856) Along with Peter Mark Roget, a possible inventor of the Thaumascope REYNAUD, Charles-Émile Inventor of the praxinoscope and later the Théâtre Optique

ROGET, Peter Mark (January 18, 1779 – September 12, 1869) Along with John Ayrton Parist, a possible inventor of the Thaumascope.

PLATEAU, Joseph (October 14, 1801 – September 15, 1883)Credited with the invention of the phenakistoscope or phenakistiscopein 1832