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William George Horner (Born: 1786 in Bristol, England Died: 22 Sept 1837 in Bath, England) was educated at Kingswood School Bristol. At the almost unbelievable age of 14 he became an assistant master at Kingswood school in 1800 and headmaster 4 years later. He left Bristol and founded his own school in 1809 in Bath. After Horner died in 1837 his son, also called William, carried on running the school in Bath.

1834: Horner patents the "Daedatelum" or "Zoetrope", developed from Dr. Joseph Plateau's Phenakistiscope. The Zoetrope was a cylindrical toy through which one can see a picture move. The rotating drum has equally spaced peepholes on the outside, and a series of still images on the inside showing a figure in graduating stages of motion. As the drum spins (faster than 12 images per second), the dark frames of the still pictures disappear and the figure appears to move.

Source: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Horner.html

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