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Born on 15 April 1860 into a family of newspaper proprietors, Benham was educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School but did not attend university.
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The following pages do not profess to contain by any means a complete list of the distinguished names connected with the town of Colchester. No one, however, having as far as I know endeavoured to compile any sort of Index of Colchester Worthies, I have felt justified in gathering together, as well as I could, some particulars of a few more or less noted Colchester characters, and shall be grateful for any suggestions, corrections or additions from my readers, in view of a possible further edition at some future time. C.E.B. 45, Wellesley Road, Colchester. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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Born on 15 April 1860 into a family of newspaper proprietors, Benham was educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School but did not attend university.
He later returned to the school to become President of the Old Colcestrian Society for old boys of the school. He left a widow. Scientific pursuits
In the spare time that his journalistic endeavours provided to him, Benham was a keen amateur scientist and contributor to the journal Nature. His obituary in Nature noted that Benham was "a representative of the type of scientific amateur of which British science has reason to be proud.. by faithful observation and original mind he was able to make some notable contributions to knowledge." Most significantly, however, he is credited for his invention of Benham"s top, the invention of which was relayed through an 1894 issue of Nature.
The disc, when spun, produces the Fechner colour effect of vivid and coloured images of concentric circles, despite neither of these being present in the design.
He was inspired to invent the said top after his correspondence with Doctor Gustav Theodor Fechner, who had demonstrated the illusory colour effect which the top propagated to English-speakers. Other pursuits and endeavours
His exploits were also described in Knowledge and the (English) Journal of Botany.
The invention of a "miniature twin elliptic pendulum harmonograph" was also credited to him.
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Additionally, Benham contributed an essay defending the reputation of William Gilbert, asserting that "though Gilbert"s actual discoveries were few and crude, he must be judged rather by the spirit of his work." Other contributions were plentiful in the areas of optics and fluorescence.