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Name
  
Wordsworth Donisthorpe

Role
  
Inventor

Movies
  
London's Trafalgar Square


Wordsworth Donisthorpe

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


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.

Works online

  • The claims of labour, or, Serfdom, Wagedom, and Freedom (1880).
  • Labour capitalization (1887).
  • Individualism: A System of Politics (1889).
  • "The Woes of an Anarchist", Liberty (25 January 1890). Reprinted in Benjamin Tucker, Instead of a Book (1897).
  • "L'État Est Mort; Vive L'État!", Liberty (23 May 1890). Reprinted in Benjamin Tucker, Instead of a Book (1897).
  • Law in a Free State (1895).

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