Auguste and Louis Lumiere presented their first movie – “Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory” – to an audience on this day in 1895. Did you know that:• Orlando Jones patented a method for alkali starch extraction, later applied to corn […]
Louis Lumière, a French engineer and industrialist who played a key role in the development of photography and cinema, was born on this day in 1864. Did you know that: • The first Little Orphan Annie-strip appeared in The New […]