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The phenakistiscope (also known by the spellings phénakisticope or phenakistoscope) was the first widespread animation device that created a fluid illusion of motion. Dubbed Fantascope and Stroboscopische Scheiben ('stroboscopic discs') by its inventors, it has been known under many other names until the French product name Phénakisticope ...
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The phénakisticope (better known by the misspelling phenakistiscope or phenakistoscope) was the first animation device using rapid successive substitution of sequential pictures. The pictures are evenly spaced radially around a disc, with small rectangular apertures at the rim of the disc.
A "Great Zoetrope; or: Wheel of Life", 50 feet (15 meters) in circumference, with "life-size figures", was installed in the Concert Hall of the Crystal Palace in London by permission of the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company. The programme featured at least four animations based on strips in their catalogue.
They are the size of a large housefly and feed only on blood. ©Jaco Visser/Shutterstock.com. The tsetse fly is the first of several insects to make our list of the 10 deadliest animals in the world.
Gillnets are designed to catch fish of a certain size when the fish’s head passes through the net, but the body gets stuck. Theoretically, larger- and smaller-sized fish would either pass ...
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