Léon Bouly
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French engineer and inventor of the cinematograph
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Léon Guillaume Bouly was a French inventor who created the word cinematograph. Cinematograph After devising chronophotography devices, Bouly applied a patent on a reversible device of photography and optics for the analysis and synthesis of motions, calling it the Cynématographe Léon Bouly on February 12, 1892. On December 27, 1893, he shortened the name of his device to .
