1886: Otto's Spinning Disc

In Germany, Ottomar Anschutz had been using a similar ‘bank of cameras’ technique to that employed by Edweard Muybridge.   In 1886, Anschutz, together with organ-builder Schneide, developed the catchy-sounding Schnellseher to project the photographs he had captured.   The device became known as the Electrical Wonder, or Electrical Tachyscope, and was essentially a large disk with 20 or 24 glass plate positives of the images lining its circumference.   On top of the disk was a viewing area and a Geissler tube that gave a flash of light lasting only one-thousandth of a second as each image passed in front of it.   The disc turned at a pace that allowed thirty images to be transmitted in a second, giving an illusion of movement that far surpassed Muybridge’s earlier efforts. [ADD]

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