Lumière

[ly-myer]

noun

1. Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas 1862–1954, and his brother, Louis Jean 1864–1948, French chemists and manufacturers of photographic materials: inventors of a motion-picture camera (1895) and a process of color photography.

Lumière

/ lymjɛr /

noun

1. Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas (oɡyst mari lwi nikɔlɑ). 1862–1954, and his brother, Louis Jean (lwi ʒɑ̃), 1864–1948, French chemists and cinema pioneers, who invented a cinematograph and a process of colour photography