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Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic, created the Phenakistoscope (died 1883)
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Joseph Plateau
Belgian physicist (1801–1883)
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau was a Belgian physicist and mathematician. He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. To do this, he used counterrotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Phenakistiscope
First widespread animation device that created a fluid illusion of motion
The phenakistiscope was the first widespread animation device that created a fluid illusion of motion. Dubbed Fantascope and Stroboscopische Scheiben by its inventors, it has been known under many other names until the French product name Phénakisticope became common. The…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)