Cros, Charles, 1842-1888

LC control no.	n 82058557
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PQ2211.C65
Personal name heading	Cros, Charles, 1842-1888 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Cros, Émile-Hortensius-Charles, 1842-1888 Cros, Hortensius Émile Charles, 1842-1888
Other standard no.	Q356575 500078001
Birth date	[1842-10-01,1842-10-10]
Death date	[1888-08-09,1888-08-10]
Place of birth	Aude (France : Department) Fabrezan (France)
Place of death	Paris (France)
Field of activity	Inventions Photography Color photography--Three-color process Sound--Recording and reproducing Poetry Humorous recitations Journalism--Editing Bohemianism
Affiliation	Collège de France Institut national de jeunes sourds de Paris Chat noir (Cabaret : Paris, France) Zutistes (Group)
Profession or occupation	Inventors Authors Poets Periodical editors
Found in	Tailhade, L. Quelques fantômes de jadis, 1913, via HathiTrust, January 15, 2020: page 55 (Charles Cros) Cros, Charles. Solution générale du problème de la photographie des couleurs, 1869: title page (par Charles Cros) Bibliothèque nationale de France. BnF autorités, January 18, 2020 (Cros, Charles (1842-1888); gender: male; born 1842-10-10, died 1888-08-10; poet and author of tales; physicist and inventor) Wikipedia, January 18, 2020 (Charles Cros or Émile-Hortensius-Charles Cros (October 1, 1842-August 9, 1888); French poet, humorous writer and inventor, born in Fabrezan, Aude, France; "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"; died Paris, 9 August 1888; "most famous as the man who almost, but not quite, invented the phonograph") French Wikipedia, January 18, 2020 (Charles Cros; birth name Charles Émile Hortensius Cros; poet, photographer, inventor, writer; born 1 October 1842, Fabrezan, died 9 August 1888, Paris) Amat, Roman d'. "Cros (Charles)" in Dictionnaire de biographie française, v. 9, 1961: column 1279 (Cros (Charles), born Fabrezan (Aude), October 10, 1842; finished education in Paris and was considered a prodigy; at 18, professor of chemistry at the École des sourd-muets, but soon gave it up to begin studying medicine; never completed his studies but improvised as a doctor; interested in various contemporary problems, including color photography, which his neglected Solution générale du problème de la photographie des couleurs (1869) solved perfectly; in 1877, his paper on sound recording described the invention of the first phonograph, which he called the "paléophone"; when Edison subsequently patented a simiar device, Cros' claims of priority were called "indécentes"; Cros dropped the matter and had already turned his attention to poetry; founded the Revue du monde nouveau; involved in bohemian literary circles in Paris; one of the founders of the Montmartre caberet Le Chat noir, where he performed monologues; in 1884, left the Chat noir and co-founded "Les Zutistes"; died in Paris, August 10, 1888) Photographers' Identities Catalog (PIC), January 18, 2020 (Charles Emile-Hortensius Cros; French, 1842-1888; male; photographer; ID: 300123) <https://pic.nypl.org/constituents/300123> PhotographyDatabase.org, January 18, 2020 (Cros, Charles; October 1, 1842, Fabrezan-August 10, 1888, Paris; "Cros was an independent (along with Louis Ducos du Hauron) discoverer of the basic principles of three-color photography. Both presented their work in 1869, but Cros had indicated his two years earlier. His other discoveries included a Chromometre (1879) used in the optical synthesis of color, Hydrotypie (1880), an inhibition color process, and a bleach-out color process (1881). He also invented a phonograph (paleograph) in 1877") Union list of artist names online (ULAN), January 18, 2020 (Cros, Charles Emile-Hortensius (French photographer, 1842-1888); artist, photographer) Sagner, Karin. "Cros, Charles," in Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, v. 22 (1999), page 426, via Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online, January 18, 2020 (Cros, Charles (Charles-Emile-Hortensius; French photographer; painter; author; inventor; born October 10, 1842, Fabrezan; died August 9 or 10, 1888, Paris; studied Sanskrit at Collège de France, 1855-1859, and medicine until 1862, then active as an author (poems, parodies); friendship with authors such as Verlaine and Mallarmé and with aritsts such as Renoir, Manet, Seurat; amateur painter; inventor; published principles of trichrome photography at the same time as (but independently from) Ducos du Hauron; other inventions, including the phonograph and the chromometer; Artist ID _10175535) OCLC, January 17, 2020 (access points: Cros, Charles; Cros, Charles, 1842-1888; Cros, Charles (Hortensius Émile Charles), 1842-1888; Cros, Hortensius Émile Charles)
Associated language	fre