The Phenakistoscope was invented by Joseph Plateau in 1831. It was an animation device that used the Persistence of Vision principle to create an illusion of movement.
The Phenakistoscope was simply a spinning disc that was attached to a handle. On the disk there would be a series of sequential images, and cut through it were small slits. To view the animation, the user would stand in front of a mirror with the disk facing the mirror, and would look through the slits to see the image reflected through it. The scanning of the slits past the users vision, would prevent the images from blending together, giving the illusion there was a single moving picture.
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