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The Thaumatrope
The invention of the thaumatrope is usually credited to either John Ayrton Paris or Peter Mark Roget. Paris used one to demonstrate persistence of vision to the Royal College of Physicians in London in 1824. -
Joseph Niepce
Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor, now usually credited as the inventor of photography and a pioneer in that field. -
The Zoetrope
The modern zoetrope was invented in 1834 by British mathematician William George Horner. He called it the "Daedalum," popularly translated as "the wheel of the devil" though there is no evidence of this etymology. -
Mathew B. Brady
Mathew B. Brady was one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War. He studied under inventor Samuel F. B. Morse, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique in America. -
The Praxinoscope
The praxinoscope was an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. -
First film ever created
t shows the first experimental movie that Thomas Edison made in 1889. In 1878, British photographer Eadweard Muybridge made a series of still photographs of a horse that when viewed in sequence, appeared to be galloping. -
The first animation projection
Charles-Emile Reynaud he projected the first animation pubicly -
First animated film
Historically and technically, the first animated film was Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906) by newspaper cartoonist J. Stuart Blackton, one of the co-founders of the Vitagraph Company. -
The Stroboscope
The electronic strobe light stroboscope was invented in 1931, when Harold Eugene Edgerton ("Doc" Edgerton) employed a flashing lamp to study machine parts in motion.
