Inventing the next century – The Lumiere Brothers and the birth of Cinema
On this day in (engineering) history… The Lumiere Brothers film workers leaving the Lumiere Factory, 19 March, 1895 It is spring, 1895 (March 19, to be exact) in the French city of Lyon. After the end of their shift, workers at the Lumière factory are pouring out into the streets. Some have noticed a man standing behind a large, odd-looking wooden box on a tripod, who appears to be turning a handle on the side of the container. What the workers are seeing is themselves being filmed by one of their bosses, the Lumière Brothers (it is not recorded which), who own the photographic factory the staff are leaving. The Brothers Auguste (on the left) and Louis Lumière. Wikimedia Commons Louis and Auguste Lumière grew up in Lyon, in the east of France, although they were both born…