Wordsworth Donisthorpe

Wordsworth Donisthorpe (Leeds, 24 March 1847 – Shottermill, 30 January 1914)[1] was an English individualist anarchist[2] and inventor, pioneer of cinematography and chess enthusiast. His father was George E. Donisthorpe, also an inventor;[3] his brother, Horace Donisthorpe, was a myrmecologist.

In 1885 Donisthorpe was co-founder of the British Chess Association and the British Chess Club.[3]

Donisthorpe filed for a patent in 1876, for a film camera, which he named a "kinesigraph."[3] The object of the invention was to:

“ 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.[3][4] ”

Although unsuccessfully at first, in 1890 he produced, together with his cousin W. C. Crofts, a moving picture of London's Trafalgar Square.[5] In 1889 they already patented this camera, and the projector necessary to show the motion frames.[6]

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  1. ↑ Gaige, Jeremy (1987). Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography. McFarland. p. 96. ISBN 0-7864-2353-6.
  2. ↑ Edward Bristow quotes Donisthorpe in the Westminster Gazette: "The Late Lord Bramwell, Tolstoi, Herbert Spencer, Benjamin Tucker, Vaillart, Auberon Herbert, J.H Levy, Kropotkin, the late Charles Bradlaugh, Yves Guyot, Caserio, and thousands of smaller fry, including myself, are anarchists". Bristow, Edward (1970). "The defence of liberty and property in Britain, 1880-1914". Yale University.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Herbert, Stephen; Coe, Brian (2000). "Who's Who of Victorian Cinema". Retrieved 2009-05-10.
  4. ↑ Burns, R. W. (1998). Television: An International History of the Formative Years. London: Institution of Engineering and Technology. ISBN 0-85296-914-7.
  5. ↑ Burns, Paul T. "The History of The Discovery of Cinematography - 1885 - 1889". Retrieved 2009-05-10. and "Ten Remaining Frames Of Donisthorpe's 1890 'Trafalgar Square' Footage Come To Life" (GIF). Retrieved 2009-05-10.
  6. ↑ Herbert, S. (1998). Industry, Liberty, and a Vision: Wordsworth Donisthorpe's Kinesigraph. London: The Projection Box. ISBN 0-9523941-3-8.
  • Bristow, Edward (1975). "The Liberty and Property Defence League and Individualism". Historical Journal 18 (4): 761–789. doi:10.1017/S0018246X00008888. 
  • Barker, Rodney (1997). Political Ideas in Modern Britain. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-07121-6. 

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