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John Barnes Linnett (born c. 1831 – 9 October 1870) [1] was a British lithograph printer based in Birmingham, England. Although the French Pierre-Hubert Desvignes is generally credited with being the inventor of the flip book , Linnett was the first to patent the invention, in 1868, under the name of kineograph .
illustration of the Kineograph in Linnett's 1868 patent. A flip book, flipbook, [1] flicker book, or kineograph is a booklet with a series of images that very gradually change from one page to the next, so that when the pages are viewed in quick succession, the images appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change. Often, flip ...
In 1868, the Birmingham-based printer John Barnes Linnett received the first patent for the flip book. He gave the name kineograph to his device. [3] [4] A flip book is a small book with relatively springy pages, each having one in a series of animation images located near its unbound edge. The user bends all of the pages back, normally with ...
illustration of the Kineograph in Linnett's 1868 patent. John Barnes Linnett patented the first flip book in 1868 as the kineograph. [42] [43] A flip book is a small book with relatively springy pages, each having one in a series of animation images located near its unbound edge. The user bends all of the pages back, normally with the thumb ...
History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, and Kinetophonograph is a book written by siblings William Kennedy Dickson and Antonia Dickson about the history of film. The brother Dickson wrote from his experiences working for Thomas Edison at his "Black Maria" studio in West Orange, New Jersey; Edison himself prefaced the book.
John Linnett may refer to: John Linnett (politician), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly; John Barnes Linnett, British lithograph printer;
When it was introduced in the French newspaper Le Figaro in June 1833, the term 'phénakisticope' was explained to be from the root Greek word φενακιστικός phenakistikos (or rather from φενακίζειν phenakizein), meaning "deceiving" or "cheating", [2] and ὄψ óps, meaning "eye" or "face", [3] so it was probably intended loosely as 'optical deception' or 'optical illusion'.
John Linnell was born in New York City, to father Zenos Linnell, (1925–2011), a psychiatrist, [5] and mother Kathleen (née Glenn; 1926–2008). [6] [3] When Linnell was a child, Walt Kelly's Songs of the Pogo album made a strong impression on his musical sensibilities.