1. Charles Cros or Emile-Hortensius-Charles Cros was a French poet and inventor.
10 Facts About Charles Cros
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Charles Cros was the grandson of grammarian Antoine Cros.
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In 1860 Charles Cros began studies in medicine, but he soon abandoned them for a life of literary and scientific pursuits.
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Charles Cros ended up conceding the invention to Ducos Du Hauron, despite having deposited a sealed paper at the French Academy of Sciences on 2 December 1867.
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Charles Cros proposed metal for both engraving tool attached to the diaphragm and receiving material for durability.
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Charles Cros was convinced that pinpoints of light observed on Mars and Venus, probably high clouds illuminated by the sun, were the lights of large cities on those planets.
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Charles Cros spent years petitioning the French government to build a giant mirror that could be used to communicate with the Martians and Venusians by burning giant lines on the deserts of those planets.
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Charles Cros was never convinced that the Martians were not a proven fact, nor that the mirror he wanted was technically impossible to build.
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Charles Cros, played by Christopher Chaplin, appears in the film Total Eclipse, about the lives of Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud.
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Charles Cros is seen for a few seconds at the Le Chat Noir in Paris, a cafe which opened in 1881 and had become the home for the avant-garde art scene of the time.