Ottomar Anschütz
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Ottomar Anschütz (c.1846-1907)
Inventor, photographer, chronophotographer Significant contributor to the development of history of cinema.
Invented 1/1000th of a second shutter.
Invented the electrotachyscope in 1887: a disk of 24 glass diapositives, manually powered, and illuminated by a sparking spiral Geissler tube... used by a single viewer, or projected to a small group. [1] (http://www.victorian-cinema.net/anschutz.htm)
1891 a slightly smaller, powered version: the "Electrical Schnellseher" (i.e. quick viewer) was being manufactured by Siemens & Halske in Berlin, used in a public arcade and was displayed at the International Electrotechnical Exhibition in Frankfurt; nearly 34,000 people paid to see it at the Berlin, Germany Exhibition Park in summer 1892 also Strand, London and at the1893 Chicago World's Fair.
Anschütz developed the Projecting Electrotachyscope.1887 [2] (http://www.victorian-cinema.net/machines.htm#electrotachyscopeprojecting)
His famous 1884 albumen photography of storks inspired aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal's experimental gliders in the late 1880s. [3] (http://www.lilienthal-museum.de/olma/images/f834relo.jpg)
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