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Ottomar Anschütz |
 | | Ottomar Anschütz (May 16, 1846 in Lissa/Prussia (today Leszno/Poland) - May 30, 1907 in Berlin) was an inventor, photographer, chronophotographer and significant contributor to the history of cinema. |
 | | He 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. |
 | | In 1887 Anschütz developed the Projecting Electrotachyscope, in 1891 a slightly smaller, powered version, the "Electrical Schnellseher" (i.e. |
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