Thomas Armat
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Thomas Armat
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Thomas J. Armat was an American mechanic and inventor, a pioneer of cinema best known through the co-invention of the Edison Vita Armat studied at the Mechanics Institute in Richmond, Virginia and then in 1894 at the Bliss Electrical School in Washington, D.C., where he met Charles Francis Jenkins. The two classmates teamed up to develop a movie projector using a new kind of intermittent motion mechanism, a "beater mechanism" similar to the one patented 1893 by Georges Demenÿ in France. It was o
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American cinematographer (1866–1948)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Armat
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2004-07-15T12:45:20Z
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2024-09-08T09:44:04Z
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