Today in 1895, the Lumière brothers patented the cinematograph, from the Greek for "writing in movement."
The name cinematograph was conceived earlier by another French inventor, Léon Bouly, in his own patent application for a device for shooting and projecting film, granted on February 12, 1892. Bouly could not develop his ideas and maintain his patent …
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