| Intro | Anarchist and inventor |
| Was | Inventor |
| From | United Kingdom |
| Type | Business |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 24 March 1847, Leeds |
| Death |
30 January 1914, England (aged 66 years) |
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.
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).