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unusual facts about Latham loop


Latham loop

Both men worked with Woodville Latham, developing a motion picture camera and projector in 1895.


Thomas Armat

It was one of the first projectors using what is known as the Latham loop (an extra loop of the film before the transport mechanism to reduce the tension on the film and avoid film breakage, developed independently at the same time by Woodville Latham and his sons).


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