Person: LACOMME, J.M.A. (c.1833- after 1903)

Person summary

Biographical summary of this person

Full name

Jean Marie Auguste LACOMME

Gender

male

Relevance of this person

engineer and inventor

Main period of activity

1870s

Chronology

Date

Age

Event/activity

c.1833

born at

France

1871

resident

46 Euston Street, Euston Square, London, England

2 April 1871

~38

census record

1871 Census of England and Wales, RG10/223.42.41

1877

resident

Paris, France

1900-1903

resident

Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.

in or after 1903

~69+

died at

unknown location

Reference

Hermann Hecht, ‘Some English magic lantern patents’ in NMLJ 2.2 (January 1982), pp. 4-5

Notes

Patentee of several devices for outdoor projection in the 1870s. A medical doctor by training; he also later patented water purification devices in the USA.

Lucerna ID 6003611

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 28 November 2011

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Person: LACOMME, J.M.A. (c.1833- after 1903)