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Movies are a part of human life, from a train going through a tunnel to ET making Elliott's bike fly. But not one indelible screen image could have occurred without Louis le Prince. But, would cinema be different if Louis le prince had not disappeared? The man who invented the first camera capable of motion capture boarded a train and never got off. No trace of Louis le Prince was ever found. Louis le Prince was born in Metz in 1841. His father was friends with  Louis Daguerre , inventor of photography.  Le Prince created a 16 lens camera that could capture motion - the first of its kind. In 1887 he built a single lens camera and took footage of a garden scene which became one of the earliest motion pictures. The Lumiere Brothers had begun working with moving pictures, and Thomas Edison was doing the same in America. In September of 1890 le Prince traveled to the U.S. to obtain a patent for his technology. He decided to visit his brother in France first. He boarded a train t...

  How does a plastic bowl with a sealable lid relate to feminism? Oddly, by being an icon of housewife  domesticity,  Tupperware  gave women unprecedented freedom. Brownie Wise, a single mother with money issues perfected the Tupperware Party and took women from the kitchen to the sales force - via the kitchen. Although ousted from the company she helped elevate, Brownie Wisesmade proper food storage common in American homes. Brownie Wise is remembered today as an icon of sales innovation. Postwar America became a suburban paradise. Women needed to keep food fresher longer to feed  broods of Baby Boom babies. Plastic containers as we know them today were practically non-existent.  Earl Tupper , while working for  Du Pont, use flexible polyethylene to fashion lightweight food storage containers. He founded his own company and began to sell his products and department stores. But housewives didn't exactly know what to do with the products so they mostly ...

  The name Walter Hunt has been lost to history but he invented three important and useful things in use even today. Yet he never achieved credit or reaped the millions of dollars these items could have earned him. Walter Hunt was born in upstate New York and became a Mason by trade. He had a knack for creating and invented several useful items - including a prototype fountain pen. He attained patents for his inventions, but often sold them when he needed money. He innovated the repeating rifle but lacked the means to mass produce them so he sold the patent to Winchester and Hunt's repeating format revolutionized rifles, but Winchester earned the fame and money. Hunt then transformed sewing pins. He added a spring to the end of a pin, then connected a second metal piece with a cap. The coil help the pin move into the cap. Hunt patented the device, but sold the patent to WR Grace and Company for $400 - to pay off a $15 debt. Safety pins netted the WR Grace Company millions of dollar...

November celebrates innovators :  An inventor who sold his patents and lost out on fame and wealth  A lady who changed sales and food storage  A French creator invents the movie camera and hops a train but never hops off