Joseph Plateau
War dead Male Born 14/10/1801 Died 15/9/1883
Physics professor at Brussels University, inventor in 1832 of the phénakistiscope, an early form of cinema.
Born: Brussels
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Cinema cylinder
Inaugurated 21 June 1996 to mark cinema’s centenary and to pay homage to Jose...
First film show
The composers of the text on this plaque seem to have taken their cue from so...
