Claude Hamilton Verity
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Claude Hamilton Verity (1 May 1880 – 15 August 1949) was a hardware merchant, engineer and inventor, working mainly in Leeds, England. He was one of the earliest inventors of methods of synchronisation of sound with silent films. For that purpose, and working alone, he invented the Veritiphone, a sound box which could be operated by staff in cinema projection rooms. In the 1920s he demonstrated his invention in various locations in England, and also in New York for the Vitagraph Company of America.
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Born | Claud Hamilton Verity (1880-05-01)1 May 1880 Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
Died | 15 August 1949(1949-08-15) (aged 69) Newton Abbot, Devon |
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