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 who tried to merge an audio recorder with a camera.

Life

Donisthorpe built in 1876 in London a plate camera for recording eight frames per second. He used dry plates, which slipped into a lower after exposure of a top magazine. He also made ​​so that time-lapse photography. It was issued to him on November 9, 1876, the British Patent No. 4344. Together with William Crofts, he developed a method for recording and projection with continuously running strip of paper, which she described in 1889: Brevet Français 209'174 October 28, 1890, British Patent, No. 12'921, 15 November 1890, German Reich Patent 58'166 November 9, 1890., 1893, he sent one of his imperforate image bands to Jean -Aimé " Acme " LeRoy.

In 1885 he was co-founder of the British Chess Association and the British Chess Club.