Brown, Theodore

Region: United Kingdom    Period: 1890–1930    Occupation: Inventor  

Theodore Brown was an English promoter of stereoscopy. In 1903, he published Stereoscopic Phenomena of Light and Sight. He developed an open, one-eyed pocket stereoscope, which was later replaced by an enclosed version marketed as the Blockit. His Reflectoscope was a variant of the Holmes-Bates stereoscope.

Related items: Holmes-Bates stereoscope  Pocket stereoscope

Further reading:

  • Wing, Paul. Stereoscopes: The first one hundred years (1996) , pp. 51-52
Published: 03-08-2026