Edward Hill Amet
Edward Hill Amet (born November 10, 1860 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † August 16, 1948 in Redondo Beach , California ) was an American inventor.
Life
Amet grew up in Chicago and at the age of 17 received his first patent for the development of an improved telephone. In 1884 he moved to Waukegan in the state of Illinois to where he worked as a consulting engineer. There he constructed, among other things, a scale that prints the measured value on paper and can be operated with a coin, a so-called coin scale. He has developed a movement for Edison's phonograph and an own he developed the phonograph , which was marketed under the name Echo Phone also belongs to his inventions like a film camera and the Magniscope, a film projector . At the same time as Jean-Aimé LeRoy , he was doing basic work in the construction of perforating machines and film copying machines .
Amet made many films between 1893 and 1900, which he also showed himself. These include, for example, the films Battle of Santiago Bay from 1898, The Fall of the Cervera Fleet and the reconstruction of a battle during the Boer Wars. Some of his films have been pirated. In 1927 he received a patent for a film drive with a gripper and locking pin, which is effective but noisy.
Web links
- Edward Hill Amet (1860-1948) at Illuminating Lake County, Illinois History (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Edward Hill Amet American inventor at victorian-cinema.net. (English). Retrieved August 15, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amet, Edward Hill |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 1948 |
| Place of death | Redondo Beach , California |