Clermont-Ferrand, Sept. 5.
Alphone Seyemetz, the man who implified photographic apparatus in the late nineteenth century and thu: made possible amateur photography died in Lyons yesterda; He was Assistant Director of the School of Industrial Chemistry at Lyons, and was at one time the closest collaborator of the Lumiere brothers, inventors of cinematography.
It was in 1890 that Seyemetz, who came from a middle class family, discovered and, together with the Lumiere brothers, began manufactur: ing dry photo plates. These plates paved the way for film rolls and, eventually, the miniature cameras of today.
During his lifetime, he published more than 150 works on various subjects.—Havas.
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