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1898: The Abbe Anamorphoser
Although widescreen as we know it today was still more than half-a-century in the future in 1898, its concept was recognised before the end of the nineteenth century. Ernest Abbe was a physicist who had been closely associated with lens manufacturer Carl Zeiss, for whom he developed the Abbe Sine Condition which still serves today as the basis for designing microscopes. In 1898, Abbe patented the Anamorphoser, which sounds like a weapon wielded by a mad scientist in a Flash Gordon pic, but which is actually the principle upon which anamorphic widescreen is based; that is, a lens that compresses an image horizontally so that it fits a standard frame. When the image is projected through an anamorphic projection lens the true image is restored. [ADD]
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