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Joseph Plateau invented the Phenakistiscope
Joseph Plateau was born in 1801 and died in 1883. He was a Belgian physicist and was one of the first people to discover the illusion of moving images. In 1832he created the Phenakistoscope which is another form of the Zoetope. -
Simon von Stampfer became aware of the idea after reading the 'Journal of Physics and Mathematics'
Simon von Stampfer was born in 1792 and he died in 1844. He was an inventor as well as a mathematician and his most famous invention is his version of the Zoetrope which he named the stroboscopic disk in 1832. After reading the 'Journal of Physics and Mathematics' Stampfer became aware of experments that were carried out by Michael Faraday who was a British Physicist, this is what inspired him to carry out his own experiments which lead to his invention -
William Horner invented the zoetrope
William Horner was born in 1786 and died in 1837 and he was a British Mathematician. In 1834, Horner invented the Zoetrope however he named it Daedaleum which translated is 'the wheel of the devil'. The zoetrope didnt become popular untill the 1860's however when people in America and England distributed it and the American developer is the person who gave it the name zoetrope which means 'wheel of life' -
Zoetrope becomes popular in the 1860's
The zoetrope didnt become popular untill the 1860's when people in America and England distributed it and the American developer is the person who gave it the name zoetrope which means 'wheel of life' -
Eadweard Muybridge started his experiments with photographing in motion
Eadweard Muybridge was born April 1830 and was an English photographer who took photographs of motion an example of this is ‘The Horse in Motion’, this is where Muybridge photographed a racing horse in motion using a series of cameras that were triggered when the horse ran past by string. These images were then placed on a disk viewed in a machine called a Zoopractiscope. -
Charles-Emile Reynaud created the Praxinoscope in 1877
Charles-Emile Reynaud was born in 1844 and died in 1918. He was a French science teacher. Reynaud created the Praxinoscope in 1877 and became one of the fathers of animation -
Eadweard Muybridge made his most important studies of motion from 1884 to 1887
Eadweard Muybridge was born April 1830 and was an English photographer who took photographs of motion an example of this is ‘The Horse in Motion’, this is where Muybridge photographed a racing horse in motion using a series of cameras that were triggered when the horse ran past by string. These images were then placed on a disk and then people viewed them through a machine called a Zoopractiscope. -
The Lumiere brothers had their first screening showing motion through pictures
December 28, 1895 was the very first screening of motion pictures that the Lumiere brothers done. This consisted of ten different films showing everyday French life and all together it lasted around 20 minuets. -
The first zoetrope was created by Ting Huan
Ting Huan was the first person to invent the Zoetrope around 180 AD however he called the device 'The Pipe Which Makes Fantasies Appear'. He was born in the year 150 and Chang'an during Han Dynasty. He was a craftsman and he mainly created lamps. "There are indications that another inventor named Fang Feng, already around 140 BC would have built a zoetrope, but no descriptions of them are left. There is already involved in similar devices in 207 BC"(http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ting_Huan)
