#stroboscope

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Obscure vampire

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Milk drop coronet, 1957, by Harold Edgerton. MOMA, New York.

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[elliotschultz]

Day 04 – Intersections.

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Brigitte Bardot, Le Stroboscope, Paris, 1956 - Ph. Willy Rizzo

[nemfrog]

Stroboscopic disc. Price list no. 50. Max Kohl A.G. 1909-11.

Internet Archive

[hagleyvault]

Its here! #PhenakistoscopePhriday! And conveniently just in time to announce our newest digital collection, made from our Alexis du Pont stereoviews and lantern slides (Accession 2016.303).

The phenakistoscope was a popular 19th century parlor toy that relied on optical illusion to create on of the earliest forms of animated entertainment. Invented simultaneously by physicist Joseph Plateau in Brussels and by mathematician Simon von Stamper in Berlin in 1832, the device was marketed under slightly more pronounceable monikers such as ‘stroboscope’, ‘phantasmascope’, ‘motoscope’, ‘fantoscope’, ‘magic wheel’, and others.

The first phenakistoscopes were printed, drawn, or painted on non-transparent surfaces like cardboard. The phenakistoscopes in this collection, however, are made of glass, and were intended to be used in conjunction with a magic lantern, an early type of image projector. The phenakistoscope seen above is, like the rest of its cohort in the collection, undated. We estimate that it was created at some point around the second half of the 19th century.

In addition to phenakistoscopes, the digital collection also includes non-mechanical lantern slides, stereoviews, and (yes!) more mechanical lantern slides, including a choreutoscope, an astronomical rackwork slide, single and double slip slides, and slip panorama slides. Animated video files accompany these items to demonstrate them in use.

To view these items now in our Digital Archive, just click here.

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