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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;
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.
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 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and retroactively numbered older privately-published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of U.S. Reports, and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions (these are called ...
One of the mysteries of the 1825 murder case of Peter Diamond is the spelling of his last name. Some newspaper reports of the time and later histories related by eyewitnesses are the only sources ...
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
In 1825 Kentucky slave trader John W. Anderson testified in a court case in Natchez, Mississippi, involving Stone and a male slave, who had gotten into a fight with each other. [19] In August 1826, Stone advertised for the recapture of a runaway slave.