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Wordsworth Donisthorpe (Leeds, March 24, 1847—Hindhead, January 30, 1913) was an English individualist anarchist[1] and inventor, pioneer of photography. His father was George E. Donisthorpe, an inventor as well, his brother, Horace Donisthorpe, was a myrmecologist.
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[edit] Inventor
Donisthorpe filed for a patent in 1876, for a film camera, which he named a "kinesigraph." The object of the invention was to:
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facilitate the taking of a succession of photographic pictures at equal intervals of time, in order to record the changes taking place in or the movement of the object being photographed, and also by means of a succession of pictures so taken of any moving object to give to the eye a presentation of the object in continuous movement as it appeared when being photographed.[2] |
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Although unsuccessfully at first, in 1890 he produced, together with his cousin W.C. Crofts, a moving picture of London's Trafalgar Square. In 1889 they already patented this camera, and the projector necessary to show the motion frames.
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[edit] References
- ^ *Bristow, Edward. "The defence of liberty and property in Britain, 1880-1914". Yale University.
- ^ Burns, R. W. (1998). Television: An International History of the Formative Years. London: Institution of Engineering and Technology. ISBN 0-85296-914-7.
- Bristow, Edward (1975). "The Liberty and Property Defence League and Individualism". Historical Journal 18 (4): 761-789.
- Barker, Rodney (1997). Political Ideas in Modern Britain. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-07121-6.
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- (1886) Empire and Liberty, a Lecture on the Principles of Local Government. London: Liberty and Property Defence League.
- (1889) Individualism, a System of Politics. London: Macmillan.
- (1893) Love and Law: An Essay on Marriage. London: W. Reeves.
- (1895) Law in a Free State. London: Macmillan.
