John Barnes Linnett (born – 9 October 1870)England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1995 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.
He was born in Austrey, Warwickshire.1851 England Census
Linnett died of pneumonia in 1870 in Moseley, Warwickshire. His wife sold the patent to an American.
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