Belgian Joseph Plateau - Phenakistocope

Belgian Joseph Plateau was the first man to finalise the idea of a phenakistocope, after many other researchers carrying out tests to understand the idea of a phenakistocope it was Joseph who made it a solid idea in 1829. He then furthered his research into this and made it finalised in 1841 into a solid animation creation. He spent around 10 years planning out all of his research into making it a possibility.

A phenakistocope was a device used in animation film to create forms of animation. The idea of this object was to create an illusion of motion he managed to achieve this by using a spinning disk which created persistence of vision, the two disks where placed on one axis to create this process.

An example of what a phenakistocope would look like