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Maurice Leblanc (1857 – 1923) was a French engineer and industrialist.

Born in Paris, Leblanc worked primarily in improving induction motors and alternators, where he invented the damper winding. He also invented an improved vacuum pump and worked in the area of refrigeration.

The December 1, 1880 French publication "La Lumière électrique", published an article by Leblanc entitled "Etude sur la transmission électrique des impressions lumineuses". In this article Leblanc outlined five functions required for a television system.

• a transducer to convert light into electricity
• a scanner to break up a picture into its constituent parts
• a method of synchronising the receiver and the transmitter
• a means of converting electrical signals back into light
• a screen for viewing the image

Leblanc was awarded the Prix Poncelet for 1913 by the French Academy of Sciences.

References

1. Kimbark 1995, p. 11.
2. "Poncelet prize". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 20 (October 1913 – June 1914): 40. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1914-02431-0.

Sources

• Kimbark, E.W. (1995). Power System Stability. Power System Stability. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-7803-1135-0. Retrieved 2023-07-04.

External links

• Maurice Leblanc biography at ADVENTURES in CYBERSOUND
• Leblanc's television system - article in French

• 19th-century French inventors
• Television pioneers
• Members of the French Academy of Sciences
• 1857 births
• 1923 deaths
• Engineers from Paris