Phenakistiscope
A spinning disc with slits and sequential pictures that move when viewed in a mirror.
Plateau’s phenakistiscope and Stampfer’s stroboscope appeared at the same time in 1833 and were the first devices to show moving pictures. The discs became a popular toy. Examples are in the Science Museum and the Ghent University Museum.
Materials: Card, lithograph
Manufacture: The phases of a movement were printed in a ring; the disc was spun before a mirror and viewed through the slits.
The ring of almost identical figures in different phases of a movement.
The slits at the edge working as shutters.