Electrotachyscope
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The électrotachyscope is an 1887 invention of Ottomar Anschütz of Germany which presents the illusion of motion with transparent serial photographs, chronophotographs, arranged on a spinning wheel of fortune or mandala-like glass disc, significant as a technological development in the history of cinema.
A Geissler tube was used to flash light through the transparencies to provide a weak projection to a single person or small audience through a small window.
It was first publicly demonstrated at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893.
An earlier, related device is described in the January 24, 1878 issue of the journal Nature.
[edit] See also
- Episcotister
- Flip book
- Phenakistoscope
- Praxinoscope
- Strobe light
- Tachometer
- Thaumatrope
- Zoetrope
- Zoopraxiscope
[edit] Sources
- Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
- Deac Rossell, The Electrical Wonder
- Burns, Paul The History of the Discovery of Cinematography An Illustrated Chronology
- Fielding, Raymond, 1967, A Technological History of Motion Pictures and Television.
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