Extracts decriptions :
- different insects flights study (1904-1911). We can compare different insects flappings.
Insect flight
- projectile impacts study : slow motions show different projectile impacts. Cinema was be used to improve armament technics.
Cinema and scientific contributions :
Lucien Bull's aim was to slow down time, he invented from 1902, automatism shooting. He invented ultraspeed cinema with automatism shooting : 4 pictures/seconde in 1904, 50 000 pictures/seconde in 1928, and even one million pictures/seconde in 1951.
Lucien Bull with Marey-wheel camera
Lucien Bull with Marey-wheel camera
Webography
- Lucien Bull at Who's who of Victorian Cinema
- Lucien Bull, a famous Irish inventor
