Charles Howard Hinton was born in the 1800s.
Charles Howard Hinton -LRB- 1853 , United Kingdom -- 30 April 1907 , Washington D.C. , United States -RRB- was a British mathematician and writer of science fiction works titled Scientific Romances .. United Kingdom. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. science fiction. science fiction. He was interested in higher dimensions , particularly the fourth dimension .. higher dimensions. n-dimensional space. fourth dimension. Four-dimensional space. He is known for coining the word `` tesseract '' and for his work on methods of visualising the geometry of higher dimensions .. higher dimensions. n-dimensional space. tesseract. tesseract