!!!Musger, August

b. Eisenerz (Styria), Feb. 10, 1868, 
d. Graz (Styria), Oct. 30, 1929, physicist; invented the slow motion 
technique using a mirrored drum as a synchronizing mechanism. The new 
device was patented in 1904 and was presented in Graz on July 7, 1907 
for the first time, using a projector made by K. Loeffler, owner of a 
cinema. No commercial use was made of the new invention. In 1914 the 
Erneman Company introduced a slow-motion device in Dresden without 
mentioning M. In 1916 another canotrically synchronized slow motion 
device using mirrored rings was patented.

!Literature
F. Loidl, A. M. Erfinder, 1981.



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