Thomas Thorne Baker (1881-1962)
1881 Born in Tadcaster
Educated at Mercers' School, London
Passed Intermediate Science examination at the University of London.
Worked as research chemist
1907 went to Paris for the Daily Mirror to take up Prof. Korn's system of photo-telegraphy
Superintended the operation of the Korn system between Manchester, Paris, and London.
The Korn system was eventually superseded by a system of Baker's invention.
Then focussed on research on high-frequency and X-rays.
1911 Thomas Thorne Baker 30, consulting engineer, lived in Willesden with Moira Colville Thorne Baker 28, Yvonne Moira Thorne Baker 4, Vivien Eilken Thorne Baker 1[1]
1920 After Louis Dufay's company, Versicolor, experienced difficulties with its colour photography process, T. Thorne-Baker, a colour expert from Britain who was working with Dufay, was asked by Spicers to advise on the potential of the process.
1926 Spicers bought the process and set up Spicer-Dufay with Thorne-Baker leading secret research into making a cine film.
1931 Dufaycolor was presented at a Royal Society in March, and then at the British Kinematograph Society in September. The original process had been considerably improved, with a new mosaic pattern, called the reseau, of red and green lines overlaid at right angles with blue lines. The presentations were well received but the process still had significant problems.
1940 Living in the USA with Elsie Grace Baker[2]
1962 Thomas Thorne Baker lived in Middlesex at the time of his death[3]