The praxinoscope was an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented by Emile Reynaud. It's a lot like the Zoetrope, only instead of looking through the slits in the side, a mirror is placed in the center and the image around the sides is relayed onto the mirror to show the movement.
A flip book is a small book with lots of pages, each page has one picture from a sequence. When you let the pages flip past you very quickly it makes the images appear to move. The invention the flip book first appeared in september 1868, when it was patented by John Barnes Linnett when it was named kineograph ("moving picture")
A Chronophotography ia an old photography technique used in victorian times. which captures movement in several frames of print. These prints can be subsequently arranged either like animation cels or layered in a single frame. It is a predecessor to cinematography and moving film involving a series of different cameras, originally created and used for the scientific study of movement.
A Zoetrope is a spinning circular device with images around the inside. When you spin the device and look through the slits around the side the image appears to move.
The invention of the Phenakistoscope was first recognised by Greek mathematician Euclid and later in experiments by Newton, but it was Joseph Plateau who experimented with it.
The devise was invented pria to the Zoetrope and is a more simple devise. The devise consists of one large round piece of card with a series of pictures was drawn corresponding to frames of the animation. When the card is spun round, the frames apear to move.
The Thaumatrope was invented by John Ayrton Paris or Peter Mark Roget. It's a round piece of card with a picture on each side. one being a flower vase and on the other side some flowers. When you spin the card round at a fast speed, the two pictures apear to be one picture.
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