The Phenakistoscope!

This was another early animation device used to create the illusion of motion (it has a few other spellings too, but lets not go there.) This device was fully recognised in 1829  by Belgian Joseph Plateau, but it had been brushed over previously by Newton in some of his experiments. I t was officially invented by Plateau in 1841. Unlike the Zoetrope, this device could only really be appreciated by one viewer at a time. The way it was constructed was very similar to the Zoetrope in the sense that it consisted of a series of separate pictures and in the gaps between them would have been vertical slits.

These early devices are so clever, because even though they look simple, they wouldn't be as easy to make as it looks.