Cabuang, Trixy

BSIT-2C

ACTIVITY 2

Describe the different inventor listed below that contributed to the revolution of multimedia

1. Nicephore Niepce
2. Louis Daguerre
3. Etienne-Jules Marey
4. Alexander Graham Bell
5. Thomas Alva Edison

1 .Nicephore NIepce

- Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, a French inventor, was born Mar. 7, 1765. Niépce (pronounced
Nee-EPS) invented an internal combustion engine and a velocipede, but he is best
remembered (or not remembered) for the invention of photography. It was about 1822 that
Niépce discovered how to make a permanent record of a pattern of light.

2 . Louis Daguerre

- Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was a French artist and photographer, recognized for his
invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as
one of the fathers of photography. Though he is most famous for his contributions to
photography, he was also an accomplished painter, scenic designer, and a developer of the
diorama theatre.

3. Etienne-Jules Marey

- French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey (March 5, 1830–May 21, 1904) made

significantcontributions to the development of cardiology and physical instrumentation in
medicine, but he is best-known as a pioneer of chronophotography — an antique Victorian-
era photographic technique that captures several sequential frames of movement, which
can then be combined into a single image.

4. Alexander Graham Bell

- Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist and

engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the
American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885.

5. Thomas Alva Edison

- Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman who held a world-record
1,093 patents. He was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio, and died on October 18,
1931 in West Orange, New Jersey. He developed many devices in fields such as electric
power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures1. He also
created the world’s first industrial research laboratory