Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau was born on October 14th, 1801 and later died on September 15th, 1883. Joseph was a physicist and was also the first person to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image.
The device he created was called the Phenakistoscope which was introduced in 1832, the device was a counter of rotating disks on a small handle, the user had to spin the disk and look through the moving slits at static drawn images which seemed to move very slightly.
The word Phenakistoscope comes from the greek word "Phenakizein" which means "to cheat" or "to deceive" as it looks like a staic image is actually moving and it cheats the human eye.
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