- Max Skladanowsky by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Born Apr. 30, 1863 in Berlin; died there Nov. 30, 1939. German inventor. One of the creators of the motion picture.Independently of L. Lumière, Skladanowsky constructed an apparatus in 1895 for photographing and projecting films. The apparatus, which he called a bioscope, consisted of a double projector and two cemented strips of celluloid film. Skladanowsky made several films up to 1.5 m ...
- Skladanowsky, Max by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Born Apr. 30, 1863 in Berlin; died there Nov. 30, 1939. German inventor. One of the creators of the motion picture.Independently of L. Lumière, Skladanowsky constructed an apparatus in 1895 for photographing and projecting films. The apparatus, which he called a bioscope, consisted of a double projector and two cemented strips of celluloid film. Skladanowsky made several films up to 1.5 m ...
- Reconcentrado by Webster's
... n.) Lit., one who has been reconcentrated; specifically, in Cuba, the Philippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves.
- Aleksei Borisovich Lobanov-Rostovskii by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Born Dec. 18 (30), 1824, in Voronezh Province; died Aug. 18 (30), 1896, at the Shepetovka station near Rovno; buried in Moscow. Prince; Russian diplomat.Lobanov-Rostovskii served in the diplomatic corps from 1844. He was ambassador to Turkey from 1859 to 1863 and again in 1878, to Great Britain from 1879 to 1882, to Austria-Hungary from 1882 to 1895, and to Germany in 1895. He was assistant ...
- Lobanov-Rostovskii, Aleksei Borisovich by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Born Dec. 18 (30), 1824, in Voronezh Province; died Aug. 18 (30), 1896, at the Shepetovka station near Rovno; buried in Moscow. Prince; Russian diplomat.Lobanov-Rostovskii served in the diplomatic corps from 1844. He was ambassador to Turkey from 1859 to 1863 and again in 1878, to Great Britain from 1879 to 1882, to Austria-Hungary from 1882 to 1895, and to Germany in 1895. He was assistant ...