The phenakistiscope is a toy invented in 1841 for displaying animated pictures. Mr Dyer came across some pictures of disks for this device on the Library of Congress website and has animated them so that you can see the effect.

This entry was posted on Saturday, November 10th, 2012 at 10:37 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.