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Eric Tigerstedt

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Finnish inventor

ScientistsLived 1886 to 1925 · aged 38
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Eric Magnus Campbell Tigerstedt was a Finnish inventor best known as one of the most significant inventors in Finland at the beginning of the 20th century and has been called the "Thomas Edison of Finland".

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Eric Magnus Campbell Tigerstedt was a Finnish inventor best known as one of the most significant inventors in Finland at the beginning of the 20th century and has been called the "Thomas Edison of Finland". He was a pioneer of sound-on-film technology and made significant improvements to the amplification capacity of the vacuum valve. Having seen a showing of the Lumière brothers' new motion picture technology as a nine-year-old boy in Helsinki in 1896, he was inspired to bring sound to silent pictures.

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Lived 1886 to 1925 · aged 38
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