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Ottomar AnschtzOttomar Anschtz (c.1846-1907) Inventor, photographer, chronophotographer Significant ontributor 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, nickelodeon style, by one person, or projected to a small group. http://www.victorian-cinema.net/anschutz.htm 1891 a slightly smaller, powered version: the Electrical Schnellesher 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. Anschtz developed the Projecting Electrotachyscope.1887 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. http://www.lilienthal-museum.de/olma/images/f834relo.jpg
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