associated with the production of motion pictures. Casler was raised in Fort Plain, New York, and served as an apprentice to his cousin, machinist and inventor Charles E. Lipe, founder of the C. E. Lipe Machine Shop in Syracuse, New York from 1889 to 1893. During 1893—1895, Casler worked as a draftsman for the General Electric Co., in Schenectady, New York, designing electric rock drills. He was superintendent of the Marvin Electric Drill Co. of Canastota, New York, in 1895—1896, with Harry Marvin as his employer. Marvin and Casler formed the Marvin & Casler Co. in 1896 to manufacture the Mutoscope and other Casler inventions, notably penny arcade machines. Casler later became sole owner of Marvin & Casler, which he sold in 1919. He retired in 1926, but continued to serve as a consulting engineer to a number of corporations, and filed his last patent in 1937, two years before his death. Sources "Herman Casler," The National Cyclopædia of American Biography (1950), vol. 30, p. 347. Charles Musser (1990). The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907. New York: Scribner. References 1867 births 1939 deaths 19th-century American inventors 20th-century American inventors People from Sandwich, Illinois People from Fort Plain, New York People from Canastota, New York