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Howell, Albert Summers

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Howell, Albert Summers (1879–1951)

US inventor and camera manufacturer. He designed a 35 mm film projector (patented in 1907) and camera (patented in 1909), and a continuous printer in 1911 to reproduce films that made the mass distribution of films possible. He created the first inexpensive camera for the amateur photographer in 1922 and continued to develop new equipment after his official retirement in 1938. Along with Thomas Edison and George Eastman, he was elected an honorary life member of the American Society of Cinematographers.

Born in West Branch, Michigan, he was an apprentice machinist and a tool and die technician in Chicago 1905–07. He joined with Don J Bell to form the Bell and Howell Company in 1907.
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