Eugene Augustin Lauste

Eugène Augustin Lauste ( born January 17, 1857 in Montmartre, 18th arrondissement (Paris), † June 27, 1935 in Montclair, New Jersey) was a French electrical engineer.

Life and work

Lauste had emigrated in 1886 and employed by Thomas Alva Edison in the United States. After he left Edison in 1892, created Lauste in May 1895 as a commission for the Latham family a Réversible for movie recording and projection, the Panopticon, and later the " Eidoloscope ", a film projector. With these constructions, for the first time is a loose film loop has been provided, which basically allows unlimited movie length. The loop continuously moving film mass was separated from the intermittently moving. The term Lauste Loop became the Latham Loop and even the Lost Loop, a technical way of saying that the film loop has slipped away.

In 1896, he joined the American Biograph Co..

Lauste built in London, England, 1910-1911 was probably the first optical sound a parallel to a camera, a Pathé industrial. After the traversal he produced in a simple jagged script suitable for photographic sound records on motion picture film. At a public performance, it is not come.