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The first commercial thaumatrope was registered at Stationers' Hall on 2 April 1825 and published by W. Phillips in London as The Thaumatrope; being Rounds of Amusement or How to Please and Surprise By Turns, sold in boxes of 12 or 18 discs. It included a sheet with mottoes or riddles for each disc, often with a political meaning.
He is a possible inventor of the thaumatrope, ... Duyckinck, 3rd American from the 6th London Ed. 1825 Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf;
This medal is now in the collection of the Geological Museum, Trinity College, Dublin. Around 1825, according to Charles Babbage's autobiography, he invented the thaumatrope, which was later commercially publicised by Dr. John Ayrton Paris (to whom the invention is more usually attributed). [4] He died in London.
In April 1825 the first thaumatrope was published by W. Phillips (in anonymous association with John Ayrton Paris) and became a popular toy. [35] The pictures on either side of a small cardboard disc seem to blend into one combined image when it is twirled quickly by the attached strings.
In 1825, the thaumatrope used a stroboscopic effect that made the brain combine incomplete pictures on either side of a twirling cardboard disc into one logical image. The effect was incorrectly attributed to a so-called " persistence of vision ", or " retinal persistence".
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1825 Thaumatrope: William Henry Fitton? introduced by John Ayrton Paris: 1827 Kaleidophone: Charles Wheatstone: 1829 Anorthoscope: Joseph Plateau: anamorphosis marketed shortly since 1836 1833-01 Phénakisticope: Joseph Plateau, Simon Stampfer: animation 1833 Stereoscope: Sir Charles Wheatstone: 3D
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