Fantascope

T.T. Bury

England

1833

9" diamter

A boxed set of six discs published by Ackermann & Co.

London

0519

Anon

England

c. 1835

Discs:9: diam., wood box 11" x 11" x 4"

Box and six discs.A very clever arrangement. The wooden box contaions a mirror on the inside lid. The discs(Ackermann) are set up at the front of the box and then the images are viewed in the mirror.

0520

THE LAUGHING AT US or MAGIC CIRCLE

Pub. G.S. Tregear

London, England

1835

Discs: 10 1/2" diam.

A box set of six discs which the box cover declares were invented by "A Rum Joker"

1282

Le Fantascope

Chez Gambartaine

France

c. 1840

Discs: 7" diam

A set of twelve discs contained with a handle in colorfully decorated box. Box lid demonstrates how the viewer doesn't need a mirror but uses the double disc handle to put a blank disc on one edge and an illustrated image on the other and then can view the motion by spinning the handle and looking through the blank, slotted disc.

0521

The Magic Planisphere

Anon

Germany

c. 1835

Discs" 7 1/2" diam.

A boxed set of twelve discs, hand and instructions in German, French & Enlgish.

0526

The Magic Wheel-Series No. 1

J. Bradburn

New York, America

c. 1860

Discs: 7" diam.

A boxed set of twelve discs. Bradburn published four different sets, each with the same cover and with different discs.

0535

The Ludoscope

Professor Zimmerman

America

1904

Discs: 4" diam

An adaptation of the phenakistascope, the Ludoscope requires no mirror. A plain slotted disc and the painted card were twirled together. The illusion of motion was created by viewing the designs on the card through the slotted disc.

0538

Zoopraxiscope

Eadweard Muybridge

America

1893

9 1/2" x 10 1/2"

Six plates by Muybridge from his broader study, done with the University of Pennsylvania, on "Animal Locomotion". Muybridge had the Zoopraxiscope built as a projecting phenakistascope. He used these drawings, transfered to glass discs to be projected.

1286