Oops, sorry.
The name is question is "Nevil Maskelyne" (cut and paste a typo = lots
of typos!)
Steve
On 2019-06-02 8:05 p.m., Steve Lelievre wrote:
Hi everyone,
In case you missed this news item from the last few days: British Film
Institute (BFI) have just released a digital version of film footage
of a 1900 solar eclipse - the earliest known successful recording.
https://youtu.be/q4jfPfMKBgU
The footage was shot by Neville Makelyne, a British stage magician
turned cameraman (not the Astronomer Royal of the same name). BFI
report that it was Makelyne's second attempt at recording a solar
eclipse. His first try was in India in 1898, but the undeveloped film
was stolen as he travelled home to England.
Cheers,
Steve
P.S. Apparently Makelyne is also known for disrupting Guglielmo
Marconi's early public demonstrations of commercial radio telegraphy.
Makelyne was paid by a consortium of undersea telegraph cable owners
to try to undermine Marconi's fledgling business. He would set up his
own radio transmitter in buildings near to where Marconi's
demonstrations were taking place in London, and thus swamp out
Marconi's faint signals from North America.
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