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Also known as Charles Emile-Hortensius Cros

French poet and inventor (1842-1888)

Person · Open Library

Born
1842
Died
1888
Works
25

Top works

  • Charles Cros
  • Le coffret de santal
  • Oeuvres complètes
  • The salt herring
  • L'homme propre

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
France
Active from
1842-10-01
Active to
1888-08-09

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
27
Total plays
121

Tags

francaispoet

Charles Cros (1842 – 1888) was a well-regarded poet and humorous writer. He developed various improved methods of photography including an early color photo process. He also invented improvements in telegraph technology. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Charles+Cros">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Key facts

Born
( 1842-10-01 ) 1 October 1842, Fabrezan , Aude, France
Died
9 August 1888 (1888-08-09) (aged 45), Paris
Known for
Poetry, Monologues, Paleophone sound reproduction, Color photography methods, Fax transmission methods

via Wikipedia infobox

Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Charles Cros, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Charles Cros or Émile-Hortensius-Charles Cros (1 October 1842 – 9 August 1888) was a French poet and inventor. He was born in Fabrezan, Aude.

Cros was a well-regarded poet and humorous writer. As an inventor, he was interested in the fields of transmitting graphics by telegraph and making photographs in color, but he is perhaps best known for being the first person to conceive a method for reproducing recorded sound, an invention he named the paleophone.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Charles Cros” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.