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- Joseph Beverley Fenby (1841–1903) va ser un enginyer mecànic i inventor anglès que va dissenyar un dispositiu que enregistrava una seqüència de cops de teclat en cinta de paper. Tot i que mai es va fabricar cap model o dispositiu viable, sovint es veu com un vincle amb el concepte de paper perforat per a rotlles de pianola (dècada de 1880). Fenby va néixer a Liverpool, fill de Joseph Fenby (de Beverley, Yorkshire) i Thomasina Bolton Fenby. Va ser batejat el 14 de desembre de 1841. Se li va concedir una patent el 13 de gener de 1863 (Brit. Pat. 101) per a un dispositiu sense èxit anomenat "Electro-Magnetic Phonoscope" o "Electro-Magnetic Phonograph". Si aquest darrer nom és correcte, podria convertir Fenby en el primer que va encunyar la paraula "fonògraf", molt abans que Thomas Alva Edison ho fes pel seu invent força diferent. El concepte de Fenby detallava un sistema que gravaria una seqüència de cops de teclat de piano o d'orgue en una cinta de paper. Tot i que mai no es va fabricar cap model o dispositiu viable, es podria veure com un precedent del concepte de paper perforat dels rotlles de pianola, així com al tabulador de targetes perforades de Herman Hollerith (utilitzat en el cens de 1890), un precursor llunyà de l' ordinador modern. Fenby també és conegut per altres invents, en particular la "cadira plegable Fenby", patentada als Estats Units el 1881 (Joseph Beverley Fenby a l' (anglès)) i un tamboret de campament associat (Joseph Beverley Fenby a l' (anglès)). La cadira es va fer coneguda com la Tripolina i va inspirar molts dissenys similars. Va morir el 1903, a King's Norton, Anglaterra, als 60 anys. (ca)
- Joseph Beverley Fenby (1841–1903) was an English mechanical engineer and inventor who designed a device that would record a sequence of keyboard strokes onto paper tape. Although no model or workable device was ever made, it is often seen as a link to the concept of punched paper for player piano rolls (1880s). Fenby was born in Liverpool, to Joseph Fenby (of Beverley, Yorkshire) and Thomasina Bolton Fenby. He was baptised 14 December 1841. He was granted a patent on 13 January 1863 (Brit. pat. 101) for an unsuccessful device called either the "Electro-Magnetic Phonoscope" or the "Electro-Magnetic Phonograph". If the latter name is correct, it could make Fenby the first to have coined the word "phonograph", long before Thomas Edison did so for his very different invention. Fenby's concept detailed a system that would record a sequence of piano or organ keyboard strokes onto paper tape. Although no model or workable device was ever made, it could be seen as a link to the concept of punched paper for player piano rolls (1880s), as well as Herman Hollerith's punch card tabulator (used in the 1890 census), a distant precursor to the modern computer. Fenby is also known for other inventions, notably the "Fenby folding chair", patented in the United States in 1881 (U.S. Patent 244,216) and an associated camp stool (U.S. Patent 244,215). The chair became known as the Tripolina and inspired many similar designs. He died in 1903, in King's Norton, England, aged 60. (en)
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