When did Louis Le Prince mysteriously vanish?
16 September 1890
16 September 1897
28 August 1841
28 January 1841
Answer
On 16 September 1890, French-American inventor Louis Le Prince vanished from a train platform in Dijon, France. Le Prince had been traveling from Paris to Dijon, where he planned to visit his family and then continue on to England to show his latest invention, a motion picture camera. However, when the train arrived in Dijon, Le Prince was nowhere to be found.
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