13 Facts About Jules Carpentier

Jules Carpentier was a French engineer and inventor.

Jules Carpentier was a student at the French Ecole polytechnique.

Jules Carpentier bought the Ruhmkorff workshops in Paris when Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff died and made it a successful business for building electrical and magnetical devices.

Jules Carpentier is the designer of the submarine periscope, and worked at the adjustment of trichromic process of colour photography.

Jules Carpentier patented the "Cinematographe", which serves as a film projector and developer in the late 1890s, and built devices from the Lumiere Brothers.

Jules Carpentier died in 1921 in a car accident in Joigny, France.

Jules Carpentier was one of the first manufacturers of various models of Galvanometer that had been designed by Marcel Deprez and Arsene d'Arsonval.

Jules Carpentier took care of the settings of the French engineer Emile Baudot's telegraph system of Posts and Telecommunications.

In 1921, the invention of the three-light electrode lamp by American manufacturer DeForest revolutionized the technique of wireless telegraphy and Jules Carpentier was in the process of introducing its use in electrical and radio measuring instruments when his sudden death interrupted the course of his work.

Jules Carpentier worked closely with Charles Cros in a process he had invented in 1869 by color photography.

Between late 1894 and early 1895 designed the Louis Lumiere Film and Jules Carpentier was responsible for its construction.

In 1897, Jules Carpentier made a special Cinematograph projection that was built in two models: Model A, for moving the films Lumiere to perforations and Model B for films to Edison perforations.

Jules Carpentier devised trench periscopes that were widely used during the First World War.