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Étienne-Jules Marey
Étienne-Jules Marey was a French scientist, physiologist, and chronophotographer.
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science · French scientist and chronophotographer · inventor · photographer · physician · film director · physiologist · scientist · also Étienne-Jules Marey, Etienne-Jules Marey, Étienne Jules Marey, Etienne Jules Marey, Chronophotographic gun, Chronophotographe
Born 5 March 1830 · Died 15 May 1904 · Q289217
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2026· 2 entries
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2024· 2 entries
MutualArt.com: ÉTIENNE-JULES MAREY 1830-1904 Chronophotography: Pigeon, tra - Lot 198
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MutualArt.com: ÉTIENNE-JULES MAREY 1830-1904 Chronophotography: Schenkel, J - Lot 197
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1904· 1 entry
Died 1904-05-15.
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1902· 1 entry
Career landmark: president (1902–1904).
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1901· 1 entry
Was able to build a smoke machine with 58 smoke trails
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1897· 1 entry
Career landmark: president (1897–1897).
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1895· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1895–1895).
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1890· 1 entry
Published a substantial volume entitled Le Vol des Oiseaux (The Flight of Birds), which was illustrated with photographs, drawings, and diagrams
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1889· 2 entries
Developed the chronophotographe camera, which took images on film at even spacing
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And was able to solve the problem using a sprocketed film advance mechanism along with W
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1885· 1 entry
Marey mentioned how he could playback the animation from his gun using the phenakistiscope
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1869· 1 entry
Marey constructed a very delicate artificial insect to show how an insect flies and to demonstrate the figure-8 shape it produced during movement of its wings
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1859· 1 entry
In collaboration with the physiologist Auguste Chauveau and the watch manufacturer Breguet, he developed a wearable Sphygmograph to measure the pulse
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1830· 1 entry
Born 1830-03-05.
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