Name Wordsworth Donisthorpe Role Inventor | Movies London's Trafalgar Square | |
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Died January 30, 1913, Shottermill, United Kingdom Books Law in a free state, Principles of Plutology, Down the Stream of Civilization, Individualism | ||
Trafalgar Square 1890
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Wordsworth Donisthorpe (Leeds, 24 March 1847 – Shottermill, 30 January 1914) was an English individualist anarchist and inventor, pioneer of cinematography and chess enthusiast. His father was George E. Donisthorpe, also an inventor; his brother, Horace Donisthorpe, was a myrmecologist.
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In 1885 Donisthorpe was co-founder of the British Chess Association and the British Chess Club.
Donisthorpe filed for a patent in 1876, for a film camera, which he named a "kinesigraph." The object of the invention was to:
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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