Projection Phenakistoscope
date: label: date made
content: late nineteenth century
notes: label: Description
content: Here, two large circles are rotated at different speeds in front of a lantern which projects an image onto a distant wall or screen. One circle is made of wood, and holds four glass lenses, evenly spaced. The other circle is glass, and caries a series of painted images (missing in our example). Jules Duboscq, a leading instrument maker in Paris, introduced the form in the mid-1850s, and was still offering it in the 1880s.
label: Description
content: Ref: Jules Duboscq, <i>Historique & Catalogue de tous les Instruments d’Optique Supérieure</i> (Paris, 1885), p. 19.
label: Description
content: A. Claudet, “On Moving Photographic Figures, illustrating some Phenomena of Vision connected with the Combination of the Stereoscope and the Phenakistoscope by Means of Photography,” 30 (Oct. 1865): 271-276.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: United States Military Academy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315731
label: catalog number
content: 315731
label: accession number
content: 217544
objectType: label: Object Name
content: phenakistiscope
label: Object Name
content: color wheel
label: Object Name
content: phenakistoscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 1/2 in x 21 3/8 in x 11 1/4 in; 67.31 cm x 54.2925 cm x 28.575 cm