Wordsworth Donisthorpe
Wordsworth Donisthorpe (born March 24, 1847 in Leeds , England , † January 30, 1914 in Shottermill , England) was an English lawyer and the first person to try to fuse a sound recording device with a camera .
Life
Donisthorpe built a plate camera in London in 1876 to record eight images per second. He used drying plates that, after exposure, slipped from an upper magazine into a lower one. He also used it to take time-lapse recordings. He was granted British Patent No. 4344 on November 9, 1876. Together with William Crofts , he developed a method for recording and projecting with continuously running paper tape, which they described in 1889: Brevet Français 209,174 of October 28, 1890, British Patent, No. 12,921, of November 15, 1890 and the German Empire -Patent 58'166 of November 9, 1890. In 1893 he sent one of his unperforated illustrated books to Jean-Aimé "Acme" LeRoy .
In 1885 he co-founded the British Chess Association and the British Chess Club .
See also
literature
- Herbert Tümmel: From the history of cinematography. In: cinema technology. No. 1. 1957, p. 22
Web links
- Replayable chess games by Wordsworth Donisthorpe on chessgames.com (English)
- Biography with photos (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Donisthorpe, Wordsworth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leeds , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1914 |
| Place of death | Shottermill , England |