Franz von Uchatius

Franz von Uchatius (1811-1881) was an Austrian artillery general and inventor. His inventions included both military applications and pioneer work in cinematography.

He invented a motion picture projector in the early 1850s [ [http://science.jrank.org/pages/4466/Motion-Pictures-invention-motion-pictures.html Motion Pictures - The Invention Of Motion Pictures ] ] , developing it over the years from 1845 [ [http://www.angelfire.com/film/eliab/intro.html Film Principles Class Notes ] ] from the device then called stroboscope (Simon von Stampfer) [ [http://www.acmi.net.au/aic/MAGIC_MACHINES_2.html Adventures in CyberSound: Magic Machines: 1826 - 1875 ] ] and phenakistiscope (Joseph Plateau) [ [http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/VON_UCHATIUS_BIO.html Adventures in CyberSound: von Uchatius, Franz ] ] . This was the first example of projected animation [ [http://www.animated-divots.com/chrnearl.html Chronology of Animation: Beginning ] ] , demonstrated in 1853 [ [http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1850-1854.htm Chronomedia: 1850-1854 ] ] ; it is also described as the combination of the zoetrope with the magic lantern [ [http://sophia.javeriana.edu.co/~ochavarr/computer_graphics_history/historia/ An Historical Timeline of Computer Graphics and Animation ] ] . It was called the kinetoscope [ [http://www.filmreference.com/encyclopedia/Academy-Awards-Crime-Films/Cartoons.html Cartoons - The golden era, The television era ] ] , a term later used by Thomas Edison (see kinetoscope). He applied it to lecture on ballistics [William Everdell, "The First Moderns" (1997), 13-14.] .

He worked also on a smokeless powder [ [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Gunpowder Gunpowder - LoveToKnow 1911 ] ] , improved cannons and alloys (his steel bronze was a copper-tin alloy [ [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Bronze] ] ), and a balloon bomb, used in 1849 against Venice [ [http://www.aerodacious.com/Left002.HTM Important Events in Military Aeronautic History ] ] , sent up from a paddle steamer [ [http://www.wnyc.org/books/1324 WNYC - Books: Survival City: Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America ] ] . Uchatius steel was produced industrially, by mixing granulated iron with iron oxide [ [http://www.mspong.org/cyclopedia/metallurgy.html The Household Cyclopedia - Metallurgy ] ] .

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