On 9/24/03 11:15 PM, "Robert G. Earnest" <rge@earnestphoto.com> wrote: > > > Bob Blakely wrote: >> >> The "wheel of life" or "zoopraxiscope" was patented in 1867 by William >> Lincoln. > > I believe that In 1867, M. Bradley (on 6th March in England) and William > E. Lincoln (on 23rd April in America), filed virtually identical patents > for The Zoetrope, which used illustrations rather than photographs. > Therefore, I suppose you might say that Lincoln (or Bradley) were in > fact the "fathers of the cartoon" but not fathers of "motion pictures". > > http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.acmi.net.au/ > AIC/MOVIE%5FHIST%5FMOMI.html > > >> This predates Muybridge's Galloping Horse (1878) by 11 years? > > Muybridge used photographs. > > > r > But did Muybridge actually develop the projector? He certainly developed the recording technique, but the method to project the images on a screen or a wall? -- Stephen Ylvisaker greyfell@gns2000.com "Never do business with pets you don't trust." Robert Kiyosaki, author of RICH DAD, POOR DAD
