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#1 The train to Paris, which was expected at 2:37 p. m., arrived five minutes late. Louis Le Prince, Albert's brother, had come to visit him. He had been working on a moving picture machine, and he would soon bring it back to the United States with him.
#2 Louis and Albert were not very comfortable together. They would often discuss finances, which neither had much of....
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"The year is 1888 and Louis Le Prince is finally testing his "taker" or "receiver" device for his family on their front lawn. The device is meant to capture ten to twelve images per second on film, creating a reproduction of reality that can be replayed as many times as desired. In an otherwise separate and detached world, occurrences from one end of the globe could now be viewable with only a few days delay on the other side of the world. No human...
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